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Jesse Randall Baxter Jr. (1887 – January 29, 1960), known professionally as J.R. Baxter and sometimes referred to as "Pap", was an American Southern Gospel composer and publisher.. Baxter grew up in Dekalb County, Alabama, and was a schoolteacher; he married Clarice Howard in 1918. He studied with Thomas B. Mosley and Anthony Johnson Showalter, and in 1926 bought a stake in Virgil O. Stamps' gospel music publishing company. The Stamps-Baxter Music & Printing Company became one of the leading publishers of gospel songs in the early 20th century. Baxter ran the company's Chattanooga, Tennessee office until Stamps's death in 1940; following this Baxter moved to Dallas, Texas to run the main office.. Baxter's interest in schoolteaching led him to publish shape-note songbooks and sponsor a Stamps-Baxter School of Music, both of which contributed to the popularity of Gospel music....
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