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Ezra Taft Benson (August 4, 1899 – May 30, 1994) was an American farmer, government official, and religious leader who served as the 15th United States secretary of agriculture during both presidential terms of Dwight D. Eisenhower and as the 13th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1985 until his ...
The Life and Ministry of Ezra Taft Benson. Travelers on the highway between Logan, Utah, and Whitney, Idaho, witnessed something unusual on June 4, 1994. They saw people standing along portions of that 24-mile (39-kilometer) stretch of road. The next day, Elder Robert D. Hales of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles explained why people had ...
Ezra Taft Benson became President of the Church at age 86. He served for more than eight years (1985–1994). Nine temples were dedicated during President Benson's administration.
Mar 31, 2023 · Ezra Taft Benson, president and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1985–1994. President Benson was born August 4, 1899, in Whitney, Idaho, and was the oldest of eleven children. He was named after his great-grandfather, Elder Ezra T. Benson, who had served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019. Although I was already fairly well acquainted with the activities and rhetoric of Ezra Taft Benson, a controversial twentieth-century Apostle, what surprised me when reading these two books about him was their relevance to what is happening in the United States today.
Mar 4, 1979 · Devotional. In His Steps. Ezra Taft Benson. of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. March 4, 1979. Audio 0:00/43:26. 45:38. Full Video. We follow a perfect leader—not just one who tells us to do what he thinks we should do, but the only one who can say that we should be as He is in everything.
Feb 26, 1980 · Here then is the grand key—follow the prophet—and here now are fourteen fundamentals in following the prophet, the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. First: The prophet is the only man who speaks for the Lord in everything.
