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Cannon</span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Q._Cannon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Photo of John Q. 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Preston (Mormon)">William B. Preston</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">End reason</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Excommunicated for adultery</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lavender;">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">John Quayle Cannon<br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1857-04-19</span>)</span>April 19, 1857<br /><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">January 14, 1931<span style="display:none">(1931-01-14)</span> (aged 73)<br /><a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_City" title="Salt Lake City">Salt Lake City</a>, <a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a>, United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Wells_Cannon" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth Wells Cannon">Elizabeth Wells Cannon</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">12</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_Q._Cannon" title="George Q. 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He also served as a lieutenant colonel in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a>. He was the son of <a href="/wiki/Apostle_(Latter_Day_Saints)" title="Apostle (Latter Day Saints)">LDS Church apostle</a> <a href="/wiki/George_Q._Cannon" title="George Q. Cannon">George Q. Cannon</a> and Elizabeth Hoagland. He was married to <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Wells_Cannon" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth Wells Cannon">Elizabeth "Annie" Wells Cannon</a>. Cannon is one of the few <a href="/wiki/General_authorities" class="mw-redirect" title="General authorities">general authorities</a> of the LDS Church to have been <a href="/wiki/Excommunicated" class="mw-redirect" title="Excommunicated">excommunicated</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Newspaper_editor">Newspaper editor</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Q._Cannon&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Newspaper editor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1889 until 1892, Cannon was the editor of the <i>Ogden Standard</i>. From October 1892 until April 1898, he was the editor in chief of the <i><a href="/wiki/Deseret_News" title="Deseret News">Deseret News</a></i>. After the <a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a> he returned to work at the <i><a href="/wiki/Deseret_News" title="Deseret News">Deseret News</a></i> and served as an executive editor of the newspaper off-and-on until his death. He was much beloved by his co-workers.<sup id="cite_ref-KLC_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KLC-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cannon was a member of the Utah Society of the <a href="/wiki/Sons_of_the_American_Revolution" title="Sons of the American Revolution">Sons of the American Revolution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="General_authority_and_controversy">General authority and controversy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Q._Cannon&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: General authority and controversy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cannon was the oldest son of George Q. Cannon and the one most expected to follow in his prominent father's footsteps in politics, church office, and journalism. <a href="/wiki/Heber_J._Grant" title="Heber J. Grant">Heber J. Grant</a> once said of Cannon: "There probably is not a young man in the church who had had more opportunities and advantages extended to him educationally, spiritually, and every other way than John Q. Cannon."<sup id="cite_ref-KLC_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KLC-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the age of 27, Cannon was called to serve as the Second Counselor to <a href="/wiki/William_Bowker_Preston" class="mw-redirect" title="William Bowker Preston">William B. Preston</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Presiding_Bishop_(LDS_Church)" title="Presiding Bishop (LDS Church)">Presiding Bishop</a> of the LDS Church; he served in this position between 1884 and 1886. </p><p>In 1884, shortly after Cannon had become a general authority, a sensationalized news story by Joseph Lippman in the <i><a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_Tribune" class="mw-redirect" title="Salt Lake Tribune">Salt Lake Tribune</a></i> alleged that Cannon had taken his wife's sister Louie Wells as a <a href="/wiki/Plural_marriage" class="mw-redirect" title="Plural marriage">plural wife</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tragicmatter_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tragicmatter-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lippman suggested that Cannon and Wells had been married in the <a href="/wiki/Logan_Temple" class="mw-redirect" title="Logan Temple">Logan Temple</a>. In fact, there had been no such marriage, though it was later revealed that Cannon and Wells had begun having an affair around this time.<sup id="cite_ref-tragicmatter_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tragicmatter-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cannon confronted Lippman in downtown <a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_City" title="Salt Lake City">Salt Lake City</a> and demanded a retraction of the story. When Lippman refused to apologize or to issue a retraction, Cannon punched Lippman and beat him with a <a href="/wiki/Whip" title="Whip">whip</a>. Cannon pleaded guilty to the assault and paid a small fine. Cannon, who was city editor for the <i>Deseret News</i> at the time, almost certainly wrote the article about the confrontation between himself and Lippman.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 5, 1886, Cannon was released from the <a href="/wiki/Presiding_Bishop_(LDS_Church)" title="Presiding Bishop (LDS Church)">Presiding Bishopric</a> and excommunicated from the church after he confessed in public at the traditional Sunday meeting in the <a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_Tabernacle" title="Salt Lake Tabernacle">Salt Lake Tabernacle</a> that he and Louie Wells had committed <a href="/wiki/Adultery" title="Adultery">adultery</a>. He was excommunicated from the pulpit by his uncle, Salt Lake <a href="/wiki/Stake_President" class="mw-redirect" title="Stake President">Stake President</a> <a href="/wiki/Angus_M._Cannon" title="Angus M. Cannon">Angus M. Cannon</a>. Because Louie Wells was pregnant by Cannon, George Q. Cannon instructed Cannon's wife Annie Wells Cannon to divorce so that he could marry Louie Wells. After the divorce, Cannon and Louie Wells were married by his brother, <a href="/wiki/Abraham_H._Cannon" title="Abraham H. Cannon">Abraham H. Cannon</a>. </p><p>However, after Cannon and Wells were married, he was criminally charged with the crimes of polygamy and unlawful cohabitation, largely based on the earlier rumors that had been promoted by Lippman's article.<sup id="cite_ref-tragicmatter_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tragicmatter-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cannon and Wells acknowledged that prior to their marriage they had considered plural marriage, but had decided against it.<sup id="cite_ref-tragicmatter_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tragicmatter-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After being humiliated in a preliminary hearing in which she had to testify, Louie Wells went to San Francisco to live with her half-sister and brother-in-law, Belle Whitney and Septimus Sears. There, Wells delivered a stillborn baby boy and died a month later from complications of the childbirth. Her mother, <a href="/wiki/Emmeline_Wells" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmeline Wells">Emmeline Wells</a>, was broken-hearted. </p><p>Cannon later remarried Annie Wells and they had nine more children. He was readmitted into the church by <a href="/wiki/Baptism_(Latter_Day_Saints)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptism (Latter Day Saints)">baptism</a> on May 6, 1888; however, he never regained his position as a <a href="/wiki/General_authority" title="General authority">general authority</a> of the church. In the early 1890s, Cannon and Louie Wells were <a href="/wiki/Celestial_marriage" title="Celestial marriage">sealed</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Manti_Temple" class="mw-redirect" title="Manti Temple">Manti Temple</a> in a posthumous, vicarious <a href="/wiki/Ordinance_(Latter_Day_Saints)" title="Ordinance (Latter Day Saints)">ordinance</a>, with Annie Wells standing in for her sister.<sup id="cite_ref-tragicmatter_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tragicmatter-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_service">Military service</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Q._Cannon&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Military service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a>, Cannon served as the lieutenant colonel (i.e., second-in-command) of the 2nd United States Volunteer Cavalry. </p><p>Cannon was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Sons_of_the_Revolution" title="Sons of the Revolution">Sons of the Revolution</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sons_of_the_American_Revolution" title="Sons of the American Revolution">Sons of the American Revolution</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Q._Cannon&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cannon died of <a href="/wiki/Myocarditis" title="Myocarditis">myocarditis</a> in Salt Lake City, Utah.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was buried at <a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_City_Cemetery" title="Salt Lake City Cemetery">Salt Lake City Cemetery</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Q._Cannon&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://byustudies.byu.edu/shop/pdfsrc/43.1WalkerGrants.pdf">Ron Walker "Grant's Watershed: Succession in the Presidency, 1887–1889," <i>BYU Studies</i></a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged November 2024">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup> <b>43</b>, no. 1 (2004), 195–229.]</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-KLC-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-KLC_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-KLC_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Kenneth L. Cannon II, "Wives and Other Women: Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Lives of John Q. Cannon, Frank J. Cannon, and Abraham H. Cannon," <i><a href="/wiki/Dialogue:_A_Journal_of_Mormon_Thought" title="Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought">Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought</a></i>, vol. 43, no. 4 (Winter 2010), pp. 71–130.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">National Register of the Sons of the American Revolution. 1901. pg. 961.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-tragicmatter-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-tragicmatter_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-tragicmatter_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-tragicmatter_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-tragicmatter_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-tragicmatter_4-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Kenneth L. Cannon II, "The Tragic Matter of Louie Wells and John Q. Cannon," <i>Journal of Mormon History</i>, vol. 35, no. 2 (Spring 2009), pp. 126–190.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"A Reporter Rawhided," <i>Deseret Evening News</i>, November 10, 1884, p. 3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://images.archives.utah.gov/data/81448/2259925/2259925_0001139.jpg">State of Utah Death Certificate</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110818095649/http://images.archives.utah.gov/data/81448/2259925/2259925_0001139.jpg">Archived</a> 2011-08-18 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Q._Cannon&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gapages.com/cannojq1.htm">Grampa Bill's G.A. 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class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Taylor_(Mormon)" title="John Taylor (Mormon)">John Taylor</a> (1808–1887)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Q._Cannon" title="George Q. Cannon">George Q. Cannon</a> (1827–1901)</li> <li>Ann Cannon Woodbury (1832–1921)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angus_M._Cannon" title="Angus M. Cannon">Angus M. Cannon</a> (1834–1915)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">John Q. Cannon</a> (1857–1931)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martha_Hughes_Cannon" title="Martha Hughes Cannon">Martha Hughes Cannon</a> (1857–1932)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_J._Cannon" title="Frank J. Cannon">Frank J. Cannon</a> (1859–1933)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Anne_Wells_Cannon" title="Elizabeth Anne Wells Cannon">Elizabeth Anne Wells Cannon</a> (1859–1942)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Mousley_Cannon" title="George Mousley Cannon">George Mousley Cannon</a> (1861–1937)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_J._Cannon" title="Joseph J. Cannon">Joseph J. Cannon</a> (1877–1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylvester_Q._Cannon" title="Sylvester Q. Cannon">Sylvester Q. Cannon</a> (1877–1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Clarence_Neslen" title="Charles Clarence Neslen">Charles Clarence Neslen</a> (1879–1967)</li> <li>Quayle Cannon Sr. (1879–1950)</li> <li>James H. Cannon (1890–1950)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_K._Cannon" title="John K. Cannon">John K. Cannon</a> (1892–1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cavendish_W._Cannon" title="Cavendish W. Cannon">Cavendish W. Cannon</a> (1895–1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Milchrist_Cannon" title="Robert Milchrist Cannon">Robert Milchrist Cannon</a> (1901–1976)</li> <li>T. Quentin Cannon (1906–2004)</li> <li>Quayle Cannon Jr. (1906–1990)</li> <li>Ray Cannon Needham (1908–1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Bennion_Cannon" title="Edwin Bennion Cannon">Edwin Bennion Cannon</a> (1910–1963)</li> <li>Evan J. Woodbury (1910–2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Cannon" title="Howard Cannon">Howard Cannon</a> (1912–2002)</li> <li>Ralph S. Cannon (1912–2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Q._Cannon" title="Edwin Q. Cannon">Edwin Q. Cannon</a> (1918–2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._James_Cannon" title="D. James Cannon">D. James Cannon</a> (1919–1998)</li> <li>Russell A. Cannon (1928–2014)</li> <li>Theodore L. Cannon Jr. (1931–2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Kent_Winder" title="David Kent Winder">David Kent Winder</a> (1932–2009)</li> <li>Mark Wilcox Cannon (abt. 1936–)</li> <li>John C. Pingree (abt. 1942–)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_A._Cannon" title="Joseph A. Cannon">Joseph A. Cannon</a> (1949–)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Cannon" title="Chris Cannon">Chris Cannon</a> (1950–2024)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Nelson_(Utah_activist)" title="David Nelson (Utah activist)">David Nelson</a> (1962–)</li> <li>Chet Cannon (1985–)</li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="1" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:George_Q._Cannon_-_Brady-Handy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/George_Q._Cannon_-_Brady-Handy.jpg/75px-George_Q._Cannon_-_Brady-Handy.jpg" decoding="async" width="75" height="103" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/George_Q._Cannon_-_Brady-Handy.jpg/113px-George_Q._Cannon_-_Brady-Handy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/George_Q._Cannon_-_Brady-Handy.jpg/150px-George_Q._Cannon_-_Brady-Handy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2952" data-file-height="4040" /></a></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Members_of_the_Presiding_Bishopric_of_the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:LDSpresidingbishopric" title="Template:LDSpresidingbishopric"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:LDSpresidingbishopric" title="Template talk:LDSpresidingbishopric"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:LDSpresidingbishopric" title="Special:EditPage/Template:LDSpresidingbishopric"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Members_of_the_Presiding_Bishopric_of_the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Members of the <a href="/wiki/Presiding_Bishop_(LDS_Church)" title="Presiding Bishop (LDS Church)">Presiding Bishopric</a> of <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Presiding_Bishops_(LDS_Church)" title="Category:Presiding Bishops (LDS Church)">Presiding Bishops</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Partridge" title="Edward Partridge">Partridge</a> (1831–40)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newel_K._Whitney" title="Newel K. Whitney">Whitney</a> (1847–50)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Hunter_(Mormon)" title="Edward Hunter (Mormon)">Hunter</a> (1851–83)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_B._Preston_(Mormon)" title="William B. Preston (Mormon)">Preston</a> (1884–1907)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_W._Nibley" title="Charles W. Nibley">Nibley</a> (1907–25)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylvester_Q._Cannon" title="Sylvester Q. Cannon">Cannon</a> (1925–38)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/LeGrand_Richards" title="LeGrand Richards">Richards</a> (1938–52)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_L._Wirthlin" title="Joseph L. Wirthlin">Wirthlin</a> (1952–61)</li> <li>Vandenberg (1961–72)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_L._Brown" title="Victor L. Brown">Brown</a> (1972–85)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_D._Hales" title="Robert D. Hales">Hales</a> (1985–94)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merrill_J._Bateman" title="Merrill J. Bateman">Bateman</a> (1994–95)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._David_Burton" title="H. David Burton">H.D. Burton</a> (1995–2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_E._Stevenson" title="Gary E. Stevenson">Stevenson</a> (2012–15)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%A9rald_Causs%C3%A9" title="Gérald Caussé">Caussé</a> (2015–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Counselors_in_the_Presiding_Bishopric_(LDS_Church)" title="Category:Counselors in the Presiding Bishopric (LDS Church)">First Counselors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Morley" title="Isaac Morley">Morley</a> (1831–40)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Miller_(Latter_Day_Saints)" title="George Miller (Latter Day Saints)">G. Miller</a> (1844–46)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_W._Hardy" title="Leonard W. Hardy">Hardy</a> (1856–84)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_T._Burton" title="Robert T. Burton">R.T. Burton</a> (1884–1907)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orrin_P._Miller" title="Orrin P. Miller">O.P. Miller</a> (1907–18)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_A._Smith_(Mormon)" title="David A. Smith (Mormon)">Smith</a> (1918–38)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marvin_O._Ashton" title="Marvin O. Ashton">Ashton</a> (1938–46)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_L._Wirthlin" title="Joseph L. Wirthlin">Wirthlin</a> (1946–52)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thorpe_B._Isaacson" title="Thorpe B. Isaacson">Isaacson</a> (1952–61)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_L._Simpson_(Mormon)" title="Robert L. Simpson (Mormon)">Simpson</a> (1961–72)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._Burke_Peterson" title="H. Burke Peterson">Peterson</a> (1972–85)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_B._Eyring" title="Henry B. Eyring">Eyring</a> (1985–92)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._David_Burton" title="H. David Burton">H.D. Burton</a> (1992–95)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_C._Edgley" title="Richard C. Edgley">Edgley</a> (1995–2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%A9rald_Causs%C3%A9" title="Gérald Caussé">Caussé</a> (2012–15)</li> <li>Davies (2015–20)</li> <li>Waddell (2020–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Counselors_in_the_Presiding_Bishopric_(LDS_Church)" title="Category:Counselors in the Presiding Bishopric (LDS Church)">Second Counselors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Corrill" title="John Corrill">Corrill</a> (1831–37)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titus_Billings" title="Titus Billings">Billings</a> (1837–40)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesse_C._Little" title="Jesse C. Little">Little</a> (1856–74)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_T._Burton" title="Robert T. Burton">R.T. Burton</a> (1874–84)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Cannon</a> (1884–86)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_R._Winder" title="John R. Winder">Winder</a> (1887–1901)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orrin_P._Miller" title="Orrin P. Miller">O.P. Miller</a> (1901–07)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_A._Smith_(Mormon)" title="David A. Smith (Mormon)">Smith</a> (1907–18)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wells_(Mormon)" title="John Wells (Mormon)">Wells</a> (1918–38)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_L._Wirthlin" title="Joseph L. Wirthlin">Wirthlin</a> (1938–46)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thorpe_B._Isaacson" title="Thorpe B. Isaacson">Isaacson</a> (1946–52)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_W._Buehner" title="Carl W. Buehner">Buehner</a> (1952–61)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_L._Brown" title="Victor L. Brown">Brown</a> (1961–72)</li> <li>Featherstone (1972–76)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Richard_Clarke" title="J. Richard Clarke">Clarke</a> (1976–85)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glenn_L._Pace" title="Glenn L. Pace">Pace</a> (1985–92)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_C._Edgley" title="Richard C. Edgley">Edgley</a> (1992–95)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_B._McMullin" title="Keith B. McMullin">McMullin</a> (1995–2012)</li> <li>Davies (2012–15)</li> <li>Waddell (2015–20)</li> <li>Budge (2020–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Members_of_the_Council_of_Fifty_of_the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:LDScouncil50" title="Template:LDScouncil50"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:LDScouncil50" title="Template talk:LDScouncil50"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:LDScouncil50" title="Special:EditPage/Template:LDScouncil50"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Members_of_the_Council_of_Fifty_of_the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Council_of_Fifty_(LDS_Church)" class="mw-redirect" title="List of members of the Council of Fifty (LDS Church)">Members</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Fifty" title="Council of Fifty">Council of Fifty</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" class="mw-redirect" title="Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_J._Adams" title="George J. Adams">Adams</a> (1844–45)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Almon_W._Babbitt" title="Almon W. Babbitt">Babbitt</a> (1844–56)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Badlam" title="Alexander Badlam">Badlam</a> (1844–45, 1851–68)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ezra_T._Benson" title="Ezra T. Benson">Benson</a> (1846–69)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Bent" title="Samuel Bent">Bent</a> (1844–46)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Milton_Bernhisel" title="John Milton Bernhisel">Bernhisel</a> (1844–81)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Bonney" title="Edward Bonney">Bonney</a> (1844–45)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uriah_Brown_(inventor)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Uriah Brown (inventor) (page does not exist)">Brown</a> (1844–45)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Budge" title="William Budge">Budge</a> (1882–1919)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bullock_(Mormon)" title="Thomas Bullock (Mormon)">Bullock</a> (1846–82)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_T._Burton" title="Robert T. Burton">Burton</a> (1867–1907)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reynolds_Cahoon" title="Reynolds Cahoon">Cahoon</a> (1844–61)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_T._Caine" title="John T. Caine">Caine</a> (1881–1911)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_H._Cannon" title="Abraham H. Cannon">A. H. Cannon</a> (1884–96)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angus_M._Cannon" title="Angus M. Cannon">A. M. Cannon</a> (1880–1915)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Q._Cannon" title="George Q. Cannon">G. Q. Cannon</a> (1867–1901)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">J. Q. Cannon</a> (1884–1931)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Carrington" title="Albert Carrington">Carrington</a> (1845–89)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiram_B._Clawson" title="Hiram B. Clawson">Clawson</a> (1882–1912)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Clayton_(Mormon)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Clayton (Mormon)">Clayton</a> (1844–79)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jeter_Clinton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jeter Clinton (page does not exist)">Clinton</a> (1867–92)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_W._Cluff" title="William W. Cluff">Cluff</a> (1880–1915)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joseph_W._Coolidge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joseph W. Coolidge (page does not exist)">Coolidge</a> (1844–48)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Van_Cott" title="John Van Cott">Cott</a> (1880–83)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alpheus_Cutler" title="Alpheus Cutler">Cutler</a> (1844–49)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lewis_Dana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lewis Dana (page does not exist)">Dana</a> (1845–48)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cyrus_Daniels&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cyrus Daniels (page does not exist)">Daniels</a> (1845–46)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jonathan_Dunham&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jonathan Dunham (page does not exist)">Dunham</a> (1845)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marenus_G._Eaton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marenus G. Eaton (page does not exist)">Eaton</a> (1844–45)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace_S._Eldredge" title="Horace S. Eldredge">Eldredge</a> (1848–88)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Emmett" title="James Emmett">Emmett</a> (1844–45)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_W._Farnham&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John W. Farnham (page does not exist)">Farnham</a> (1845–?)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lorin_Farr" title="Lorin Farr">Farr</a> (1880–1909)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Amos_Fielding&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Amos Fielding (page does not exist)">A. Fielding</a> (1844–75)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Fielding" title="Joseph Fielding">J. Fielding</a> (1844–63)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucian_R._Foster" title="Lucian R. Foster">Foster</a> (1845–46)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Fullmer" title="David Fullmer">D. Fullmer</a> (1845–79)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_S._Fullmer" title="John S. Fullmer">J. S. Fullmer</a> (1845–82)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_F._Gibbs" title="George F. Gibbs">Gibbs</a> (1882–1924)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_D._Grant&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="George D. Grant (page does not exist)">G. D. Grant</a> (1845–76)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heber_J._Grant" title="Heber J. Grant">H. J. Grant</a> (1882–1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jedediah_M._Grant" title="Jedediah M. Grant">J. M. Grant</a> (1844–56)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_P._Greene" title="John P. Greene">Greene</a> (1844)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_W._Hardy" title="Leonard W. Hardy">Hardy</a> (1882–84)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abram_Hatch" title="Abram Hatch">Hatch</a> (1883–1911)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Haws&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter Haws (page does not exist)">Haws</a> (1844–46)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_L._Heywood" title="Joseph L. Heywood">Heywood</a> (1848–82)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Davis_S._Hollister&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Davis S. Hollister (page does not exist)">Hollister</a> (1844–46)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Hooper" title="William Henry Hooper">Hooper</a> (1867–82)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Hunter_(Mormon)" title="Edward Hunter (Mormon)">Hunter</a> (1867–83)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orson_Hyde" title="Orson Hyde">Hyde</a> (1844–78)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_James_(Latter_Day_Saints)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Samuel James (Latter Day Saints) (page does not exist)">James</a> (1844–45)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Jennings_(mayor)" title="William Jennings (mayor)">Jennings</a> (1880–86)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_F._Johnson" title="Benjamin F. Johnson">Johnson</a> (1844–1905)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_S._Kimball&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles S. Kimball (page does not exist)">C. S. Kimball</a> (1867–1925)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Patten_Kimball" title="David Patten Kimball">D. P. Kimball</a> (1867–83)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heber_C._Kimball" title="Heber C. Kimball">H. C. Kimball</a> (1844–68)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heber_P._Kimball&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Heber P. Kimball (page does not exist)">H. P. Kimball</a> (1867–85)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Layton" title="Christopher Layton">Layton</a> (1883–98)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_D._Lee" title="John D. Lee">Lee</a> (1844–77)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feramorz_Little" title="Feramorz Little">Little</a> (1880–87)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornelius_P._Lott" title="Cornelius P. Lott">Lott</a> (1844–50)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amasa_Lyman" title="Amasa Lyman">A. M. Lyman</a> (1844–67)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_M._Lyman" title="Francis M. Lyman">F. M. 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