13 Facts About Lorenzo Hoopes

Lorenzo Hoopes spent much of his career as an executive for Safeway.

Lorenzo Hoopes had taken a leave of absence from Safeway back in 1953, during the administration of President Dwight D Eisenhower, to serve as executive assistant to United States Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson.

Lorenzo Hoopes received his bachelor's degree from Weber State University and studied at the University of Utah.

Lorenzo Hoopes earned an MBA from Pepperdine University and did advanced management training at Harvard Business School.

Lorenzo Hoopes was serving as bishop of the Oakland California Ward that included where the Oakland Temple now is when the ground was broken for the first LDS meetinghouse on that general site in about 1957.

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Lorenzo Hoopes later served as president of the LDS Church's Oakland California Stake.

Lorenzo Hoopes served as chairman and member of the Board of the Foundation for American Agriculture; vice chairman and member of the Board of the Farm Foundation; president and member of California's Coordinating Council for Higher Education; chairman, director, and secretary of the National Dairy Council; and chairman and member of the National Advisory Council.

Lorenzo Hoopes was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Lorenzo Hoopes served as president of the Oakland Temple from 1985 to 1990.

Lorenzo Hoopes served for 17 years as a member of the Oakland School board.

Lorenzo Hoopes was as of January 2010 the head of the Paramount Theatre Board in Oakland, California.

Lorenzo Hoopes was believed to be the person in Oakland who donated the largest amount of money to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign, which caused some to seek to oust Lorenzo Hoopes from his unpaid volunteer position with the Paramount Theatre.

Lorenzo Hoopes sat on the board of the theatre for nearly 30 years.