'''Charles F. Parham''' (June 4, 1873 – c. January 29, 1929) was an American [[preacher]] and [[evangelism|evangelist]]. Together with [[William J. Seymour]], Parham was one of the two central figures in the development and early spread of American [[Pentecostalism]]. It was Parham who associated [[glossolalia]] with the [[baptism in the Holy Spirit]], a theological connection crucial to the emergence of Pentecostalism as a distinct movement. Parham was the first preacher to articulate Pentecostalism's distinctive doctrine of evidential tongues, and to expand the movement.