This week in Church history
E-mail story
It's easy. Send a link to the story you were just reading to a friend. Just fill out the form on this page and we'll send it along.
Your name and e-mail address are transmitted to the recipient. Otherwise, it is considered private information; see Privacy policy.
100 years ago
Counselors to President Lorenzo Snow were sustained in general conference on October 6, 1901, but were never set apart in those callings.
The change was necessitated because President George Q. Cannon, first counselor in the First Presidency, died on April 12, 1901. In the following conference it was proposed and sustained that President Joseph F. Smith be moved from second counselor to first counselor and that President Rudger Clawson, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve at the time, serve as second counselor.
President Snow died four days later, before his new counselors were set apart. President Smith was ordained and set apart as president of the Church on Oct. 17. President Clawson returned to the Quorum of the Twelve. On March 17, 1921, he was sustained as president of that quorum and served in that position until his death on June 21, 1943.
(Source: Deseret News 2001-2002 Church Almanac. See biographies of Lorenzo Snow and Joseph F. Smith, p. 54, and Rudger Clawson, p. 60.)
