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Nathan Eldon Tanner
Canadian politician and Mormon religious leader (–)
| N. Eldon Tanner | |
|---|---|
| December&#;30,&#;&#;()&#;&#;&#;November&#;27,&#;&#;() | |
| Called by | Spencer W.
Kimball |
| Reason | Reorganization of First Presidency |
| July&#;7,&#;&#;()&#;&#;&#;December&#;26,&#;&#;() | |
| Called by | Harold B.
Lee |
| Reason | Reorganization of First Presidency |
| End reason | Dissolution of First Presidency upon the death of Harold B. Lee |
| January&#;23,&#;&#;()&#;&#;&#;July&#;2,&#;&#;() | |
| Called by | Joseph Fielding Smith |
| Reason | Reorganization of First Presidency |
| End reason | Dissolution of First Presidency upon the death of Joseph Fielding Smith |
| October&#;4,&#;&#;()&#;&#;&#;January&#;18,&#;&#;() | |
| Called by | David O.
McKay |
| Reason | Death of Henry D. Moyle |
| End reason | Dissolution of First Presidency upon the death of David O. McKay |
| October&#;11,&#;&#;()&#;&#;&#;October&#;4,&#;&#;() | |
| Called by | David O.
McKay |
| Reason | Death of George Q. Morris |
| October&#;11,&#;&#;()&#;&#;&#;November&#;27,&#;&#;() | |
| Called by | David O. McKay |
| Reason | Death of George Q.
Morris |
| Reorganization at end of term | No apostles ordained |
| October&#;8,&#;&#;()&#;&#;&#;October&#;11,&#;&#;() | |
| Called by | David O. McKay |
| End reason | Called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles |
| August 22, &#;&#;&#;August 5, | |
| Predecessor | George Stringam |
| Successor | Edgar Hinman |
| February 6, &#;&#;&#;January 4, | |
| Predecessor | George Johnston |
| Successor | Peter Dawson |
| January 5, &#;&#;&#;April 1, | |
| Predecessor | Charles Ross |
| Premier | William Aberhart and Ernest Manning |
| April 1, &#;&#;&#;September 9, | |
| Predecessor | Ivan Casey |
| Premier | Ernest Manning |
| April 1, &#;&#;&#;September 9, | |
| Predecessor | Ernest Manning |
| Premier | Ernest Manning |
| Political party | Social Credit |
| Born | ()May 9, Salt Lake Municipality, Utah, United States |
| Died | November 27, () (aged&#;84) Salt Lake City, Utah, Joined States |
| Resting place | Salt Lake City Cemetery 40°46′″N°51′″W / °N °W / ; |
| Occupation | Teacher, Politician, Religious Leader |
| Spouse(s) | Sara Isabelle Merrill &#; &#; (m.&#;)&#; |
| Children | 5 daughters |
Nathan Eldon Tanner (May 9, &#; November 27, ) was a Canadian politician and a leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from to as a member of the Social Credit caucus in government.
Nathan Eldon Tanner (May 9, – November 27, ) was a Canadian politician and a public figure of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from to as a member of the Social Credit caucus in government.
He served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from to and as a cabinet minister in the governments of William Aberhart and Ernest Manning from to , in various portfolios related to resource industries.
Early life
Tanner was born on May 9, , in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Nathan William Tanner and Sarah Edna Brown Tanner.
He had seven younger siblings.[1] His family emigrated to Canada and had a farmstead in Aetna, south of Cardston, Alberta, where he grew up and attended grade educational facility. He attended high school at Knight Academy in Raymond and received some postsecondary education at Calgary Normal School.[2]
Tanner began his working life at a grocery store and butcher shop.
He obtained a job teaching at a small school in Hill Spring in He met Sara Isabelle Merrill at the academy and married her on December 20, [2] and they became the parents of five daughters.[3]
Along with teaching, Tanner also established his own general store, which later also became the local post office, to supplement his family income.
The store was successful enough that he left his first teaching job in Hill Spring to run the store full-time.[2]
Tanner eventually became a high school teacher[2] and institution principal in Cardston.[1] He got his start in politics as a councillor on the Cardston Town Council.[2]
Political and business career
Tanner was drafted to run for a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the first time in the general election.
He ran as a Social Credit candidate in the electoral district of Cardston and defeated the incumbent United Farmers MLA George Stringam.[4]
After the election and despite his complete lack of parliamentary experience, Tanner was chosen to be fifth-ever Speaker of the Alberta Legislature when the first session of the 8th Alberta Legislative Assembly began.
He served in that role until January 5, , when Premier William Aberhart appointed Tanner the Minister of Lands and Mines.[5] His time in this capacity and as legislator spanned 16 years.[1]
In the general election, Tanner defeated the independent candidate S.H.
Nelson in a two-way race.[6]
In the general election, Tanner won a three-way race.[7]
In the Alberta general election, Tanner easily won a two-way race over the Liberal candidate Briant Stringam to hold his seat.[8]
In , Ernest Manning changed Tanner's ministerial portfolio from Lands and Mines to Lands and Forests.
Tanner was also appointed Minister of Mines and Minerals and held both portfolios until his retirement from the Legislature at its dissolution in
In Tanner left politics and became president of Merrill Petroleums in Calgary. In Manning and federal Minister of Trade and IndustryC.
Among those who heard this message was Jesse Knight, one of relatively few Latter-day Saint mining magnates in the nineteenth century Western America. Son of Newel Knight, a close friend of Joseph Smith and one of the original members of the Church when it was founded in His marriage to his second wife Lydia Goldthwaite, was the first marriage performed by Joseph Smith. Upon migrating with the early pioneers to Utah with his family, he went on to become a founder of the mining industry in Utah and a wealthy man.D. Howe asked him to develop president of TransCanada PipeLines Limited. During Tanner's contract of five years, the TransCanada pipeline was built from Alberta to Montreal.[2]
LDS Church
In , Tanner was called as an Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, a full-time LDS Church general authority.
He had previous exposure in church leadership, having served as a bishop, branch president, and stake president in Canada.[1] In the church, he preferred to be referred to as "N. Eldon Tanner." In , the death of George Q.
Morris created a vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles,[citation needed] which Tanner was called to fill in October [1] He was still the quorum's junior member one year later when he was called into the First Presidency as second counselor to church presidentDavid O.
McKay. Tanner remained in that position for the church presidency of Joseph Fielding Smith (–) and then became first counselor to Smith's successor, Harold B. Lee and later to Spencer W. Kimball until Tanner's death.[citation needed] He thus served as counselor to four church presidents.
While Tanner was a member of the First Presidency, the membership numbers of the church grew from million to 5 million.[1]
Tanner was presented with the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award at a ceremony in at Salt Lake City.[9]
As the First Presidency, Kimball, Tanner, and Marion G.
Romney announced the reception of the Revelation on Priesthood in June , which established that existence of black African descent would no longer be a barrier to ordination to the church's priesthood.
He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from to as a member of the Social Credit caucus in government. He served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from to and as a cabinet minister in the governments of William Aberhart and Ernest Manning from toin various portfolios connected to resource industries. He had seven younger siblings. He attended high school at Knight Academy in Raymond and received some postsecondary education at Calgary Normal School.The announcement was canonized as "Official Declaration 2" in the church's Doctrine and Covenants. Tanner formally presented the announcement for acceptance by the church at a general conference in October [10]
Not long afterward, Tanner's health deteriorated, and it became impossible for him to persist the duties of his office.
Kimball and Romney were also ailing, and the decision was made to add Gordon B. Hinckley as an additional counselor to the First Presidency on July 23, , with Neal A. Maxwell ordained to hold Hinckley's seat in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Tanner remained first counselor until his death on November 27, , at the age of Because of the appointments of Maxwell and Hinckley the prior year, no additional individuals were added to the First Presidency and no apostles were ordained as a result of his death.
The Mission was to obtain in the northern part of Alberta and eventually adjoining Provinces. President Miller arrived in Edmonton on September 19, to obtain over his new duties and to begin organizing the Mission. With the help of N. November 21, marked another modify in the boundaries when the Alaskan-Canadian Mission in was formed from parts of the Western Canadian Mission, British Columbia and the Yukon Territory.Grave marker of N. Eldon Tanner
Notes
- ^ abcdefMcCune, George M.
(). Personalities in the Doctrine and Covenants and Joseph Smith–History. Salt Lake Municipality, Utah: Hawkes Publishing. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
- ^ abcdefHugh B.
Brown (November ). "President N. Eldon Tanner: A Man of Integrity".
First Presidency creates new Canada Area of the Church: He was chosen as president of the Alberta Stake in (serving for thirty-nine years) and later as the first president of the Cardston “Alberta Temple” in (serving for thirty-five years) before his death inEnsign. LDS Church. p.&#;
- ^Flake, Lawrence R. (). Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University. pp.&#;–
- ^"Cardston Official Results Alberta general election".
Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved 29 April
- ^Shariff, Shiraz,&#;Acting Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (16 May ). "Vignettes from the Assembly's History"(PDF).At age 21, he was sent to Samoa as a missionary for the LDS Church, where he served from to Inhe reportedly raised his missionary companion Brigham Smoot from the gone after Smoot had drowned in the ocean. InWood was again sent to Samoa, this day to be the president of the Samoan Mission of the church. After Wood returned to Utah inCharles O.
Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. p.&#; Archived(PDF) from the first on 1 July
- ^"Cardston Official Results Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation.
Retrieved 29 April
- ^"Cardston Official Results Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Group Foundation. Retrieved 29 April
- ^"Cardston Official Results Alberta general election".
Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved 29 April
- ^"Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement".
On July 17, , a call was received by Walter Miller of Taber, Alberta, Canada from the First Presidency to preside over a newly formed Mission in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The Mission was to take in the northern part of Alberta and eventually adjoining Provinces.
. American Academy of Achievement.
- ^N. Eldon Tanner, "Revelation on Priesthood Accepted, Church Officers Sustained", Ensign, November
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| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints titles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded&#;by Harold B. Lee | First Counselor in the First Presidency July 7, &#; December 26, December 30, &#; November 27, | Succeeded&#;by Marion G. Romney |
| Preceded&#;by Hugh B. Brown | Second Counselor in the First Presidency October 4, &#; January 18, January 23, &#; July 2, | |
| Preceded&#;by Gordon B. Hinckley | Quorum of the Twelve Apostles October 11, &#; October 4, | Succeeded&#;by Thomas S. Monson |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded&#;by George Stringam | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta August 22, &#;August 5, | Succeeded&#;by Edgar Hinman |
| Preceded&#;by George Johnston | Speaker of the Alberta Legislative Assembly &#; | Succeeded&#;by Peter Dawson |