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Authorities Sustained

Heber J. Grant, President of the Church

1923 October General Conference·Second Day Afternoon Session·1923-10-06

Presented the General Authorities and also the General Officers of the Church. They were sustained in their positions and callings, by the unanimous vote of the assembly, as follows :

General Authorities of the Church

First Presidency

Heber J. Grant, Prophet, Seer and Revelator and President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Charles W. Penrose, First Counselor in the First Presidency. Anthony W. Ivins, Second Counselor in the First Presidency.

President of the Council of Twelve Apostles

Rudger Clawson

Council of Twelve Apostles

  • Rudger Clawson
  • Reed Smoot
  • George Albert Smith
  • George F. Richards
  • Orson F. Whitney
  • David O. McKay
  • Joseph Fielding Smith
  • James E. Talmage
  • Stephen L. Richards
  • Richard R. Lyman
  • Melvin J. Ballard
  • John A. Widtsoe

Presiding Patriarch

Hyrum G. Smith

The Counselors of the First Presidency, the Twelve Apostles, and Presiding Patriarch as Prophets, Seers, and Revelators.

First Seven Presidents of Seventy

  • Seymour B. Young
  • Brigham H. Roberts
  • Jonathan G. Kimball
  • Rulon S. Wells
  • Joseph W. McMurrin
  • Charles H. Hart
  • Levi Edgar Young

Presiding Bishopric

Charles W. Nibley, Presiding Bishop David A. Smith, First Counselor John Wells, Second Counselor

Trustee-in-Trust

Heber J. Grant, as Trustee-in-Trust, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

General Officers of the Church

Church Historian and Recorder

Joseph Fielding Smith, with the following assistants: Andrew Jenson, Brigham H. Roberts, A. Wm. Lund, Junius F. Wells.

Church Board of Education

  • Heber J. Grant
  • Charles W. Penrose
  • Anthony W. Ivins
  • Willard Young
  • Rudger Clawson
  • Orson F. Whitney
  • Joseph Fielding Smith
  • David O. McKay
  • John A. Widtsoe
  • Stephen L. Richards
  • Richard R. Lyman
  • Arthur Winter, Sec. and Treas.

Commissioners of Education

  • John A. Widtsoe
  • Stephen L. Richards
  • Richard R. Lyman

Superintendent of Church Schools

Adam S. Bennion

Auditing Committee

  • Henry H. Rolapp
  • John C. Cutler
  • Peter G. Johnston

Tabernacle Choir

  • Anthony C. Lund, Conductor
  • B. Cecil Gates, Asst. Conductor
  • John J. McClellan, Organist
  • Edward P. Kimball, and Tracy Y. Cannon, Asst. Organists
  • George C. Smith, Sec. and Treas.

And all the members of the Choir

Clerk of the General Conference

Edward H. Anderson

Cite this talkHeber J. Grant, "Authorities Sustained," 1923 October General Conference, Second Day Afternoon Session (1923-10-06). Pulpit Vault, 1923-10-27-heber-j-grant-remarks-30. Authoritative print text from archive.org.Pulpit Vault, edition of 23 September 2026 (commit 4bdc6ac627).