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Heber J. Grant, ordained and set apart on Nov. 23, 1918, as the seventh president of the Church, was the first president to have been born in Utah, which was a territory at the time of his birth. He was born in Salt Lake City on Nov. 22, 1856, nine years after the Latter-day Saints entered the Salt Lake Valley, to Jedediah M. and Rachel Ridgeway Ivins Grant.
Source: Church History in the Fulness of Times, p. 495; and Deseret News 1999-2000 Church Almanac, p. 48.
