Russell H. Dilday, the sixth president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth and former president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, died June 21 in Dallas.

William H. Dilday Jr., a Boston TV executive who moved to Jackson, Miss., in 1972 to manage the city’s NBC affiliate, becoming the country’s first Black person to run a commercial television ...

Mr. Dilday, who served in the Army from 1960 to 1962, married Maxine in 1966. After they moved to Mississippi, she was involved with arts programing in Jackson and running a concert hall.