Ezra Taft Benson: A BiographyDeseret Book Company, 1987 - 565 Seiten Ezra Taft Benson (1899- ) was born in Whitney, Idaho to George Taft Benson, Jr. and Sarah Sophia Dunkley. He was the great-grandson of LDS Apostle Ezra T. Benson (1811-1869). During his active and impressive career, Benson has been a farmer, businessman, Secretary of Agriculture during the Eisenhower administration as well as a General Authority in the LDS Church. In 1943 Ezra Taft Benson was was called into the Quorum of Twelve Apostles by Heber J. Grant. At the death of Spencer W. Kimball in 1986, Ezra Taft Benson became the thirteenth President of the LDS Church. He and his wife, Flora Smith Amussen (1901-1992) were the parents of six children. |
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... seemed little more than a Band - Aid on a gaping wound . Ezra seldom agreed with the President's programs or poli- cies . But despite the friction , Roosevelt once remarked that he would rather talk with Ezra Benson than any farm leader ...
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... seemed unbelievable and overwhelming . . . . For several min- utes [ I ] could say only , ' Oh , President Grant , that can't be ! ' which I must have repeated several times before I was able to collect my thots enough to realize what ...
... seemed unbelievable and overwhelming . . . . For several min- utes [ I ] could say only , ' Oh , President Grant , that can't be ! ' which I must have repeated several times before I was able to collect my thots enough to realize what ...
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... seemed that he was doing little more than hanging on , with an incessant round of emergencies , meet- ings , decisions , politics , social responsibilities , more decisions , and pressure , always pressure . When he could , he slipped ...
... seemed that he was doing little more than hanging on , with an incessant round of emergencies , meet- ings , decisions , politics , social responsibilities , more decisions , and pressure , always pressure . When he could , he slipped ...
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Pedigree Chart | 93 |
Calm in the Crucible | 282 |
Respect Comes the Hard | 313 |
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