LeGrand Richards

LeGrand Richards (February 6, 1886 – January 11, 1983) was a prominent missionary and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). 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 church president David O. McKay. Richards served in the Quorum of the Twelve until his death in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the age of 96.

LeGrand Richards was born in Famington, Utah, to George F. Richards and Alice A. Robinson. He was baptized on June 11, 1894, and filled two missions to the Netherlands, the first from 1905 to 1908. On his second mission, from 1914 to 1916, when he presided, he was accompanied by his wife, Ina Jane Ashton Richards, born September 14, 1886, in Salt Lake City. Together, they had ten children. Elder Richards was ordained a High Priest and Bishop on June 29, 1919, by Charles W. Penrose, and presided over the Sugar House Ward, Granite Stake, from 1920 to 1925. In 1926, he served a short-term mission to the Eastern States and from 1931 to 1933, he presided over the Hollywood Stake.

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