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'''Samuel Otis Bennion''' (June 9, 1874 – March 8, 1945<ref name = dc>[http://images.archives.utah.gov/data/81448/2260786/2260786_0000218.jpg State of Utah Death Certificate]</ref>) was a member of the [[First Council of the Seventy]] of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] from 1933 until his death. |
'''Samuel Otis Bennion''' (June 9, 1874 – March 8, 1945<ref name = dc>[http://images.archives.utah.gov/data/81448/2260786/2260786_0000218.jpg State of Utah Death Certificate]</ref>) was a member of the [[First Council of the Seventy]] of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] from 1933 until his death. |
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| Samuel O. Bennion | |
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 Bennion while president of the Central States Mission | |
| First Council of the Seventy | |
| April 6, 1933 – March 8, 1945 | |
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| Born | Samuel Otis Bennion June 9, 1874 Taylorsville, Utah Territory |
| Died | March 8, 1945 (aged 70) Salt Lake City, Utah |
Samuel Otis Bennion (June 9, 1874 – March 8, 1945[1]) was a member of the First Council of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1933 until his death.
Biography
Bennion was born in Taylorsville, Utah Territory.[2] He became the president of the Central States Mission of the church in 1906. In this capacity, Bennion supervised all the church missionaries and church members in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Louisiana. He also supervised the publication of Liahona the Elders Journal and a publishing house.
In 1933, Bennion became a member of the First Council of the Seventy and a general authority of the church. He continued to preside over the Central States Mission until 1935. He died at Salt Lake City of a coronary occlusion.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b State of Utah Death Certificate
- ^ S. Dilworth Young, “The Seventies: A Historical Perspective,” Ensign, July 1976, 14.
External links
- 1874 births
- 1946 deaths
- Bennion–Eyring family
- Mission presidents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Mormon missionaries in the United States
- American Mormon missionaries
- People from Taylorsville, Utah
- 20th-century Mormon missionaries
- Presidents of the seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints