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Franklin Dewey Richards (Richmond, Massachusetts
Richmond, Massachusetts

Richmond is a New England town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area....
, April 2, 1821 – December 9, 1899, Ogden, Utah
Ogden, Utah

Ogden is a city in and the county seat of Weber County, Utah, Utah, United States. The population was 81,605 according to 2005 United States Census Bureau estimates....
) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from February 12, 1849 until his death. He also served as president
President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is a Priesthood calling in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . In general, the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is the most senior Apostle in the church, aside from the President of the Church ....
 of the quorum from September 2, 1898 until his death. Both his son, George F. Richards
George F. Richards

George Franklin Richards was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from April 9, 1906 until his death....
, and grandson LeGrand Richards
LeGrand Richards

LeGrand Richards was a prominent Mormon missionary and leader in the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served as the seventh Presiding Bishop of the LDS Church from 1938 to 1952, and was then called as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles by President of the Church David O....
 were members of the quorum, with his son also serving as president of the quorum from 1945 to 1950.






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Franklin Dewey Richards (Richmond, Massachusetts
Richmond, Massachusetts

Richmond is a New England town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area....
, April 2, 1821 – December 9, 1899, Ogden, Utah
Ogden, Utah

Ogden is a city in and the county seat of Weber County, Utah, Utah, United States. The population was 81,605 according to 2005 United States Census Bureau estimates....
) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from February 12, 1849 until his death. He also served as president
President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is a Priesthood calling in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . In general, the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is the most senior Apostle in the church, aside from the President of the Church ....
 of the quorum from September 2, 1898 until his death. Both his son, George F. Richards
George F. Richards

George Franklin Richards was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from April 9, 1906 until his death....
, and grandson LeGrand Richards
LeGrand Richards

LeGrand Richards was a prominent Mormon missionary and leader in the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served as the seventh Presiding Bishop of the LDS Church from 1938 to 1952, and was then called as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles by President of the Church David O....
 were members of the quorum, with his son also serving as president of the quorum from 1945 to 1950. Another of Richards' grandsons, Franklin D. Richards
Franklin D. Richards (Mormon seventy)

Franklin Dewey Richards was a national commissioner of the United States Federal Housing Administration and a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ....
 became a general authority
General authority

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , a general authority is a member of certain leadership organizations who are given administrative and ecclesiastical authority over the church....
 of the church, serving as an Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve and later as a member of the Presidency of the Seventy.

Richards also served in the Utah Territorial
Utah Territory

The Territory of Utah was an organized territory of the United States of America that existed from its organic act on September 9, 1850, until the admission of the State of Utah to the United States on January 4, 1896....
 Legislature in 1852 and 1856.

Franklin County
Franklin County, Idaho

Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. It was established in 1913. As of the 2000 Census the county had a population of 11,329 ....
 in southeastern Idaho
Idaho

The State of Idaho is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. The state's largest city and Capital is Boise, Idaho....
 is named after Richards.

Calling

Apostle Lyman Wight
Lyman Wight

Lyman Wight was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. He was the leader of the Latter Day Saints in Daviess County, Missouri in 1838....
 was excommunicated from the church in December 1848 because he refused to join the church in the Salt Lake Valley
Salt Lake Valley

Salt Lake Valley is a valley in Salt Lake County, Utah in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Utah. It contains Salt Lake City, Utah and many of its suburbs, notably West Valley City, Utah, Sandy, Utah, and West Jordan, Utah; its total population is 948,172 as of 2005....
. This left an opening in the Quorum of the Twelve.

To fill the vacancy, and to bring the number of the quorum up to twelve, Richards was called and ordained as the fourth of four apostles on February 12, 1849. The other three apostles were Charles C. Rich
Charles C. Rich

Charles Coulson Rich was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and served as an Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ....
, Lorenzo Snow
Lorenzo Snow

Lorenzo Snow was the fifth President of the Church of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1898 to his death. Snow was the last president of the LDS Church in the nineteenth century....
, and Erastus Snow
Erastus Snow

Erastus Fairbanks Snow , born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, Vermont, was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1849 to 1888....
.

From 1889 until his death, Richards was the church's twelfth official Church Historian.

President of the Twelve

With the death of Church President Wilford Woodruff
Wilford Woodruff

Wilford Woodruff, Sr. was the fourth President of the Church of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1889 until his death. Woodruff's large collection of diary provide an important record of Latter Day Saint history....
 on September 2, 1898, President Lorenzo Snow
Lorenzo Snow

Lorenzo Snow was the fifth President of the Church of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1898 to his death. Snow was the last president of the LDS Church in the nineteenth century....
 became the president of the church. As the second-most senior apostle in the Quorum of the Twelve, Elder Richards assumed the role of President of the Twelve. His term was short-lived, as he lived only 15 months longer.

Death

Richards suffered a stroke and paralysis in the autumn of 1899. He died peacefully in his home in Ogden, Utah
Ogden, Utah

Ogden is a city in and the county seat of Weber County, Utah, Utah, United States. The population was 81,605 according to 2005 United States Census Bureau estimates....
 on December 9, 1899.

The vacancy in the quorum created by his death was filled by Reed Smoot
Reed Smoot (U. S. Senator)

Reed Owen Smoot was a native-born Utahn who served in the United States Senate. Smoot was also a prominent leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , serving as an Apostle and as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from 1900 until his death in 1941....
.

See also

  • Richards-Young family
    Richards-Young family

    The Richards-Young family is the name of a U.S. political family. Its most famous member was Brigham Young.This political family is linked by marriage to a number of others, most notably the Cannon Family and the Dudley-Winthrop Family....


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