![]() Romney announced the reception of the Revelation on Priesthood in June 1978, which established that being of black African descent would no longer be a barrier to ordination to the church's priesthood. Īs the First Presidency, Kimball, Tanner, and Marion G. Tanner was presented with the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award at a ceremony in 1972 at Salt Lake City. While Tanner was a member of the First Presidency, the membership numbers of the church grew from 1.7 million to 5 million. He thus served as counselor to four church presidents. Tanner remained in that position for the church presidency of Joseph Fielding Smith (1970–1972) and then became first counselor to Smith's successor, Harold B. ![]() He was still the quorum's junior member one year later when he was called into the First Presidency as second counselor to church president David O. Morris created a vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, which Tanner was called to fill in October 1962. Eldon Tanner." In 1962, the death of George Q. In the church, he preferred to be referred to as "N. He had previous experience in church leadership, having served as a bishop, branch president, and stake president in Canada. In 1960, Tanner was called as an Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, a full-time LDS Church general authority. Tanner was also appointed Minister of Mines and Minerals and held both portfolios until his retirement from the Legislature at its dissolution in 1952. In 1949, Ernest Manning changed Tanner's ministerial portfolio from Lands and Mines to Lands and Forests. In the 1948 Alberta general election, Tanner easily won a two-way race over the Liberal candidate Briant Stringam to hold his seat. In the 1944 general election, Tanner won a three-way race. In the 1940 general election, Tanner defeated the independent candidate S.H. His time in this capacity and as legislator spanned 16 years. He served in that role until January 5, 1937, when Premier William Aberhart appointed Tanner the Minister of Lands and Mines. Īfter the election and despite his complete lack of parliamentary experience, Tanner was chosen to be Speaker of the Alberta Legislature when the first session of the 8th Alberta Legislative Assembly began. He ran as a Social Credit candidate in the electoral district of Cardston and defeated the incumbent United Farmers MLA George Stringam. Tanner was drafted to run for a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the first time in the 1935 general election. He got his start in politics as a councillor on the Cardston Town Council. ![]() Tanner eventually became a high school teacher and school principal in Cardston. The store was successful enough that he left his first teaching job in Hill Spring to run the store full-time. Īlong with teaching, Tanner also established his own general store, which later also became the local post office, to supplement his family income. He met Sara Isabelle Merrill at the school and married her on Decem and they became the parents of five daughters. He obtained a job teaching at a small school in Hill Spring in 1919. Tanner began his working life at a grocery store and butcher shop. He attended high school at Knight Academy in Raymond and received some postsecondary education at Calgary Normal School. His family emigrated to Canada and had a farmstead in Aetna, south of Cardston, Alberta, where he grew up and attended grade school. Tanner was born on May 9, 1898, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Nathan William Tanner and Sarah Edna Brown Tanner. He served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 1936 to 1937 and as a cabinet minister in the governments of William Aberhart and Ernest Manning from 1937 to 1952, in various portfolios related to resource industries. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1952 as a member of the Social Credit caucus in government. Nathan Eldon Tanner (– November 27, 1982) was a politician from Alberta, Canada, and a leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Cardston October 8, 1960 ( ) – October 11, 1962 ( )Ĭalled to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles October 11, 1962 ( ) – November 27, 1982 ( )Īssistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles October 4, 1963 ( ) – January 18, 1970 ( )ĭissolution of First Presidency upon the death of David O. Leeĭissolution of First Presidency upon the death of Joseph Fielding Smith December 30, 1973 ( ) – November 27, 1982 ( )ĭissolution of First Presidency upon the death of Harold B.
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