Baptist minister. Pastor in Saskatchewan; Executive Secretary, Cleveland Baptist Association, 1925-1953.

Dores Robinson Sharpe was born in Pembroke, New Brunswick, Canada in 1886. He received an AB from the University of New Brunswick in 1908 and an AM in 1910. He also held a BD degree from Rochester Theological Seminary. He married Harriet Maud Holdworth in 1915, though she died in 1917. He married Ruth Leila Mitchell in 1920.

He served as a student pastor, a missionary to fishermen and lumberjacks and served as the private secretary to Walter Rauschenbusch from 1909 to 1912, while a student at Rochester Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1908.

He lists the following in a biography found within the collection:

Pastor in Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatchewan; Oranizer for Prohibition in Southern Alberta 1912-1917; general secretary Sunday School Association 1917-1919; director Forward Movement for Protestant Churches in Saskatchewan 1919; general superintendent Baptist Churches in Saskatchewan 1917-25; Executive Secretary The Cleveland Baptist Association since 1926; Member of Council of Finance and Promotion and Council of World Evangelization, Northern Baptist Convention; Chairman, Committee on City Missions-NBC; past president Cleveland Church Federation; member Speaker's Bureau Community Chest; member Board of Trustees, The Cleveland Baptist Association; Founder and Director of Sunday Evening Hour; director, Baptist Home of Northern Ohio; Northwestern Baptist Hospital Association; Trustee of Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Rio Grande College, Ohio Baptist State Convention. Chairman Cleveland Community Relations Board; on Executive Committee of NAACP; President, Church Civic League; Member Pi Gamma Mu; President and founder, Ohio Mental Hygiene Association.

He is the author of the books The Triumph of Religious Liberty, Of One Blood, The Golden Fountain, Call to Christian Action and a biography of Walter Rauschenbusch (1942).

In 1941, he was the only minister to accompany 39 American rabbis on a five-week trip to Israel, sponsored by the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and he founded the Roger Williams Fellowship.

He ran for office in Pasadena, California in 1960, and was a member of the California state central committee and chairman of a California Democratic organization. He passed away in 1981.