The Original Stamps Quartet

One of the more interesting pieces of information uncovered in the area of white supremacy connected to William Branham’s ministry is that of the original Stamps Gospel Quartet. Branham was apparently ordained, mentored by, and toured with one of the members of the Stamps quartet.

In the early 1940s as the Klan was being re-birthed in California, Roy E. Davis and William D. Upshaw re-united in California to sell Mrs. Elizabeth Ussher on the idea of a children’s orphanage. After a very public trial over the mishandling of funds and falsifying information, it looks very much as though this orphanage was a front for Davis’s Klan operation as he started to rise through the ranks of the Klan to later become the Imperial Wizard.

Before the orphanage scam was exposed, however, Davis was the M.C. at the Gospel Musician’s Convention. He was well respected in the convention for his work in Texas with the Stamps quartet. According to the announcement, Davis was a member of the original Stamps Quartet when it traveled out of Dallas and which sang on Chautauqua programs. The other members of the quartet included Davis’s former partner in the 1915 Ku Klux Klan, William D. Upshaw, The Klan’s Supreme Religious Chaplain, Caleb A. Ridley, and former Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan.

After the orphanage was exposed as a financial scam, and both Davis and Upshaw narrowly escaped prosecution for charges related to impersonating a federal agent, Davis joined the Latter Rain Revivals as a healing evangelist and sent letters to Voice of Healing confirming that he was the minister who ordained William Branham into his first Pentecostal assembly — completely overturning Branham’s conflicting “Life Story” accounts.

You can learn this and more on william-branham.org.

Roy E. Davis:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/roy_e._davis

William D. Upshaw:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/william_d._upshaw

Caleb A. Ridley:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/caleb_a._ridley

Gospel Music Convention:
https://william-branham.org/site/resource?key=df883012-b032-4f39-a6e7-1c3c4a5acd07&parent=roy_e._davis