13 Facts About LeGrand Richards

LeGrand Richards was a prominent missionary and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

LeGrand Richards 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 church president David O McKay.

LeGrand Richards's father served in the Quorum of the Twelve.

In 1909, LeGrand Richards served for a short time as a branch president over the Portland Branch in Oregon.

LeGrand Richards returned to the Netherlands as the presiding elder over the mission, accompanied by his wife, Ina Jane Ashton, from 1914 to 1916.

From 1931 to 1933, LeGrand Richards presided over the church's Hollywood Stake.

In 1933 and 1934, Richards again lived in Salt Lake City, where he served on the stake high council of the Liberty Stake under stake president Bryant S Hinckley.

LeGrand Richards served as the church's presiding bishop during and after the Second World War and began to adopt building programs to deal with the increased post-war growth in membership of the church.

Outside of his apostleship, LeGrand Richards is probably best known for his widely distributed book, A Marvelous Work and a Wonder, which was first published in 1950.

LeGrand Richards was head of the Orson Hyde Foundation, which coordinated the donations that were used to purchase the land in Jerusalem that became the Orson Hyde Memorial Garden.

LeGrand Richards just spoke from his heart, drawing upon a lifetime of experience, study, and inspiration.

Franklin D Richards was the nephew of Willard Richards, an earlier church apostle.

LeGrand Richards is the grandfather of Tad R Callister, a 21st-century leader in the LDS Church.