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  Ezra Taft Benson - MormonWiki
Ezra Taft Benson became the thirteenth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on November 10, 1985.
In 1939, Ezra Taft Benson was asked to be the executive secretary of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. On July 26, 1943 Ezra Taft Benson was called as an apostle.
In 1973, Ezra Taft Benson became the president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and in 1985 became the President of the Church.
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  Ezra Taft Benson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ezra Taft Benson (August 4, 1899 – May 30, 1994) was President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1985 until his death.
While Benson later attributed his longevity to his unorthodox diet and his religious faith, his eating habits became the source of constant ribbing in the 1970s when his conservative friends began a series of "Ezra Roasts" to poke fun at Benson as a means of fund raising to finance campaigns against the Equal Rights Amendment.
Benson succeeded Kimball as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1973, and as President of the Church in 1985.
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 Ezra Taft Benson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ezra Taft Benson (August 4 1899 - May 30 1994) was U.S. Secretary of Agriculture for Eisenhower administrations and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1985 until his death.
Benson succeeded Kimball as President of the Quorum of the Twelve in 1973 and as President of the Church 1985.
Ezra Taft Benson is honored (and spurned) by L.D.S. and non-L.D.S. alike as a clarion voice of freedom regarding the manifest destiny of the Constitution of the United States and the threats which it faces by a modern secret combination that seeks to over...
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ezra Taft Benson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Benson is the grandson of former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and LDS prophet Ezra Taft Benson.
Late in 1993, Benson very publicly left the LDS Church after claiming that its leadership was covering up his grandfather's senility and allowing church members to believe Ezra Taft Benson was still in charge of the church's day-to-day affairs.
Benson and his wife, Mary Ann, initially left the LDS Church and claimed to have become "real Christians"; they have since left organized religion altogether, and Benson self-identifies as an atheist and publically takes a dim view of religious beliefs and those who hold them.
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 The New American - Ezra Taft Benson: A Man of Character - February 28, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ezra Taft Benson, or "T," as he was affectionately known to friends and family, was born of noble pioneer stock in the tiny farming community of Whitney, Idaho, in 1899.
As Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson joined the ranks of a core of influential, uncompromising patriots who were keeping the Establishment liberals on their heels in Washington in the middle years of the century.
Ezra Taft Benson had no doubt that Americans were being hoodwinked by a crafty foe adept at concealing massive inefficiency and poverty.
www.thenewamerican.com /tna/2000/02-28-2000/vo16no05_taft.htm   (4879 words)

  
 Ezra Taft Benson, General Authority   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
President Benson was born August 4, 1899, in Whitney, Idaho, the oldest of eleven children born to George Taft Benson, Jr., and Sarah Dunkley.
Ezra learned farming at an early age, driving a team of horses at the age of five, milking cows and cultivating the sugar beet crop.
Elder Benson became President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in December of 1973 with the death of President Harold B.
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 Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson was ordained and set apart as the thirteenth President of the Church on November 10, 1985.
President Benson was born August 4, 1899, in the small rural community of Whitney, Idaho, the oldest of eleven children born to George Taft Benson, Jr., and Sarah Dunkley.
Ezra Taft Benson was reared on the family farm in Whitney, driving a team of horses at the age of five, milking cows, and thinning sugar beets.
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 ipedia.com: Ezra Taft Benson Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ezra Taft Benson was U.S. Secretary of Agriculture for both Eisenhower administrations, and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1985 until his death.
Ezra Taft Benson (August 4, 1899 - May 30, 1994) was U.S. Secretary of Agriculture for both Eisenhower administrations, and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1985 until his death.
In 1953 Benson was appointed United States Secretary of Agriculture by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and accepted this position with the permission of Church President David O. McKay.
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 History of Ezra Taft Benson
Following the end of World War II hostilities in 1945, Benson was sent by LDS Church President George Albert Smith to Europe where he spent eight busy months coordinating relief and recovery efforts among Mormons in Europe.
In 1973 Benson was set apart as president of the Council of the Twelve Apostles.
Ezra Taft Benson, born in a quiet Idaho farm community, spent much of his life working with the power brokers of the world.
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 The Watchman Expositor: Brigham Young and Ezra Taft Benson
President Benson, the current Prophet of the Mormon church, assumed office at the age of 86.
Steve Benson, 39, was also upset by the church's attempts to keep his grandfather's true condition from church members.
Benson said that his grandfather, whom he has seen struggle with encroaching senility during much of his seven-year administration, said "virtually nothing" the last time he saw him.
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 Una Reseña Histórica : Benson Institute
“Ezra Taft Benson dejó al mundo entero un legado muy importante”.
En la dedicación del Benson Instituto, Ezra T. Benson dio a conocer como es que el programa del instituto funcionaría en forma eficaz en las áreas rurales.
El Benson Instituto está trabaja en varias naciones como: Guatemala, en donde el índice de mortandad de los niños de 5 años en las comunidades rurales es del 50%.
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 Ezra taft benson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 Ezra Taft Benson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ezra Taft Benson Science Building The Ezra Taft Benson Science Building is one of the newest buildings on the BYU Provo campus.
Ezra Taft Benson a modern day prophet of The Church of Latter-day Saints and the prophet of my teen years said the following: Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation...
Kimball, Ezra Taft Benson became President of the Church on November 10, 1985, at the age of eighty-six.
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 Ezra Taft Benson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ezra Taft Benson (August 4, 1899 - May 30, 1994) was U.S.Secretary of Agriculture for both Eisenhower administrations, and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1985 until his death.
As succession to the presidency of the Church is strictly by seniority among theTwelve, the few minutes separating Kimball's and Benson's ordinations by President Heber J. Grant resulted in Benson becoming Church President a dozen years later than he would have had hebeen ordained first.
In 1953 Benson was appointed UnitedStates Secretary ofAgriculture by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, andaccepted this position with the permission of Church President David O.McKay.
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 Mormon: Looking Inside the Mind of Ezra Taft Benson Through His Personal Correspondence
For instance, Benson family members were provided gift copies of my grandfather's biography, written by Sheri Dew and sanitized for public consumption by faith-promoting censors occupying the Benson inner circle.
To this day, some--particularly among certain Benson women who, curiously and inexplicably enough, were among my strongest family critics when I left the Chuch--continue to exhibit profound denial that Ezra Taft Benson was significantly incapacitated in his role as "prophet").
My father sternly reminded me that it was his duty to protect his father and the Lord's prophet, Ezra Taft Benson, to look after the interests of the Kingdom and to uphold the faith.
www.exmormon.org /mormon/mormon419.htm   (5729 words)

  
 Benson, Ezra Taft. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In 1959 farm belt members of the Republican National Committee sought Benson’s resignation.
A devout Mormon, he became (1943) a member of the Council of Twelve (the Apostles) and in 1985 succeeded as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Benson wrote Farmers at the Crossroads (1956), Freedom to Farm (1960), Title of Liberty (1964), and An Enemy Hath Done This (1969).
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 Ezra T. Benson, General Authority
Ezra T. Benson, a member of the Council of Twelve Apostles from 1846 to 1869, was the first son of John and Chloe Benson, and was born Feb. 22, 1811, in Mendon, Worcester county, Mass.
His grandfather Benson was also a farmer, and while engaged at work in the field he fell and suddenly died.
He was also a member of the Provisional State of Deseret, previous to the organization of the Territory; was a member of the Territorial house of representatives for several sessions, and during the last ten years of his life he was elected to the Territorial council every term.
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 Ezra_Taft_Benson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
'''Ezra Taft Benson''' (August 4, 1899 – May 30, 1994) was United States Secretary of Agriculture for both of the administrations of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and he later served as President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1985 until his death.
On October 7 1943, both he and Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) were ordained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, filling two vacancies created by the death of Apostles that summer.
During this time, Benson never appeared in public, and First Counselor Gordon B. Hinckley took on many of Benson's official duties, as he had done as Second Counselor in Kimball's last years.
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 The Mormon Curtain - EZRA TAFT BENSON
Ezra Taft Benson, thirteenth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
By contrast, Ezra Taft Benson was viciously accusatory and patronizingly dismissive toward Blacks when they engaged in activities that he viewed as politically in opposition to his (and, by extension, God's) interests and purposes.
According the Sheri Dew in her Church-published biography on Ezra Taft Benson, he proved to be "forward-thinking" as he dealt with the "many and complex" problems facing the stake.
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 Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson a modern day prophet of The Church of Latter-day Saints and the prophet of my teen years said the following:
Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life -- and that preparing for life is far more than knowing how to make a living or how to land on the moon.
Parents are directly responsible for the righteous rearing of their children, and this responsibility cannot be safely delegated to relatives, friends, neighbors, the school, the church, or the state.
www.waldsfe.org /Articles/benson.htm   (766 words)

  
 The Watchman Expositor: When Ezra Taft Benson Speaks, the Church Doesn't Listen
Ezra Taft Benson is an intelligent man. Perhaps he understands that so many attempts to prove the Book of Mormon have fallen on hard times that it would be much safer for the LDS church to avoid trying to prove anything about the Book of Mormon.
Benson should simply admit that the book isn't true and accept the real Jesus as his Lord and Savior.
Benson's teaching regarding the Book of Mormon at face value or deny that he is God's prophet, seer, and revelator.
www.watchman.org /lds/bomproof.htm   (610 words)

  
 Quotes of President Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson, “A Witness and a Warning,” Ensign, Nov. 1979, 31
There is a difference between a convert who is built on the rock of Christ through the Book of Mormon and stays hold of that iron rod, and one who is not.
Ezra Taft Benson, “The Book of Mormon Is the Word of God,” Ensign, May 1975, 63
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 Quotes of President Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson, “I Testify,” Ensign, Nov. 1988, 86
Ezra Taft Benson, “A Witness and a Warning,” Ensign, Nov. 1979, 31
Ezra Taft Benson, “The Book of Mormon Is the Word of God,” Ensign, May 1975, 63
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