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President Hugh B. Brown

My brethren and sisters, as President Clark so often said, this is not a mere pro forma matter, but it is an opportunity given to all the members of the Church to indicate their willingness to support and sustain those who preside over them. Church government is carried on by the consent of and the cooperation of the members of the Church.

General Authorities and Officers of the Church

The First Presidency

David O. McKay, Prophet, Seer and Revelator, and President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Hugh B. Brown, First Counselor in the First Presidency

Nathan Eldon Tanner, Second Counselor in the First Presidency

Joseph Fielding Smith and Thorpe B. Isaacson, as counselors in the First Presidency

President of the Council of the Twelve Apostles

Joseph Fielding Smith

Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Joseph Fielding Smith Marion G. Romney

Harold B. Lee LeGrand Richards

Spencer W. Kimball Richard L. Evans

Ezra Taft Benson Howard W. Hunter

Mark E. Petersen Gordon B. Hinckley

Delbert L. Stapley Thomas S. Monson

Elder Alvin R. Dyer, APOSTLE

Patriarch to the Church

Eldred G. Smith

The Counselors in the First Presidency, the Apostles and the Patriarch to the Church as Prophets, Seers, and Revelators.

Assistants to the Twelve

Alma Sonne Franklin D. Richards

ElRay L. Christiansen Theodore M. Burton

John Longden Boyd K. Packer

Sterling W. Sill Bernard P. Brockbank

Henry D. Taylor James A. Cullimore

Wm. J. Critchlow, Jr.

Trustee-in-Trust

David O. McKay

as Trustee-in-Trust for The Church of Jesus Church of Latter-day Saints.

The First Council of the Seventy

Antoine R. Ivins Marion D. Hanks

Seymour Dilworth Young Albert Theodore Tuttle

Milton R. Hunter Paul H. Dunn

Bruce R. McConkie

The Presiding Bishopric

John H. Vandenberg, Presiding Bishop

Robert L. Simpson, First Counselor

Victor L. Brown, Second Counselor

The following is a letter from the Presidency of the Church addressed to the membership of the Church:

As many of you will remember, in 1941, it became necessary for the First Presidency and the Twelve to provide for additional brethren to help with the work of overseeing and setting in order an ever-growing, world-wide Church. Thus in the General Conference of April, 1941, Assistants to the Twelve were named and sustained, "to be increased or otherwise from time to time as the necessity of carrying on the Lord's work seems to dictate.

Since then the world-wide demands of the Church have increased in ever greater degree and it is felt by the First Presidency and the Twelve that a further provision for guidance and direction is now needed.

What, therefore, is now proposed is the calling of as many brethren as may be necessary, to be known as Regional Representatives of the Twelve, each, as assigned, to be responsible in some aspects of the work to carry counsel to and to conduct instructional meetings in groups of stakes or regions as may be designated from time to time.

These Regional Representatives of the Twelve will not be "General" Authorities, as such, but will serve somewhat as do stake presidents, giving full Church service time for greater or lesser periods of service as circumstances may suggest.

Fuller details will be in evidence as this plan proceeds under the guidance of the First Presidency and the Twelve.

The First Presidency

While these regional representatives are not by this appointment to become General Authorities or general officers of the Church, it is deemed advisable to present their names to this one General Conference of the Church for your information and sustaining vote. Their duties are to begin January 1, 1968.

I shall now read the names of those who are recommended:

Regional Representatives of the Twelve

Arthur S. Anderson

Edwin B. Jones

Howard B. Anderson

J. Talmage Jones

Wendell J. Ashton

Wilford W. Kirton, Jr.

William G. Bangerter

E. Coleman Madsen

Robert W. Barker

Howard J. Marsh

R. Raymond Barnes

Henry A. Matis

William H. Bennett

Neal A. Maxwell

Clifton D. Boyack

Z. Reed Millar

Harold R. Boyer

Max C. Mortensen

Daken K. Broadhead

George H. Mortimer

Carl W. Buehner

Leslie T. Norton

Berkeley L. Bunker

Raymond J. Pace

Wilford M. Burton

Finn B. Paulsen

J. Elliot Cameron

Wilford H. Payne

Alvin C. Chace

Vern R. Peel

Alten Christensen

Henry E. Peterson

M. Elmer Christensen

A. Ray Curtis

George W. Poulsen, Jr.

John C. Dalton

Rex C. Reeve

Junius E. Driggs

G. Lamont Richards

Edward E. Drury, Jr.

Stephen C. Richards

J. Howard Dunn

Clarence F. Robison

John K. Edmunds

Myles W. Romney

A. Lewis Elggren

Joan M. Russon

Donald Ellsworth

Robert N. Sears

Percy K. Fetzer

Stanford G. Smith

G. Roy Fugal

C. Laird Snelgrove

J. Thomas Fyans

O. Leslie Stone

L. Brent Goates

Richard S. Summerhays

David B. Haight

Allen M. Swan

Cecil E. Hart

Grant S. Thorn

Heber J. Heiner, Jr.

J. Clifford Wallace

David E. Heywood

Wilburn C. West

Ralph J. Hill

C. Bryant Whiting

Phil D. Jensen

Harold M. Wright

All who favor this proposition as submitted by the First Presidency, please make it manifest.

Are there any opposed to any of them?

(The voting was unanimous in the affirmative.)

Church Historian and Recorder

Joseph Fielding Smith, with A. William Lund and Earl E. Olson as Assistants

Priesthood Welfare Committee

John H. Vandenberg, Chairman

Henry D. Taylor, Managing Director

Priesthood Home Teaching Committee

Marion G. Romney, Chairman

John H. Vandenberg, Vice Chairman

Alvin R. Dyer, Managing Director

Priesthood Missionary Committee

Spencer W. Kimball, Chairman of Executive Committee

Gordon B. Hinckley and Thomas S. Monson, Vice Chairmen

Bruce R. McConkie, Managing Director

Priesthood Genealogical Committee

Howard W. Hunter, Chairman

Theodore M. Burton, Managing Director

Church Board of Education

David O. McKay

LeGrand Richards

Hugh B. Brown

Richard L. Evans

Nathan Eldon Tanner

Howard W. Hunter

Joseph Fielding Smith

Gordon B. Hinckley

Thorpe B. Isaacson

Thomas S. Monson

Harold B. Lee

Boyd K. Packer

Spencer W. Kimball

Marion D. Hanks

Ezra Taft Benson

Albert Theodore Tuttle

Mark E. Petersen

Paul H. Dunn

Delbert L. Stapley

John H. Vandenberg

Marion G. Romney

Church Finance Committee

Orval W. Adams

Harold H. Bennett

Wilford G. Edling

Glenn E. Nielson

Weston E. Hamilton

Senior Church Auditors

Harold L. Davis

Charles Schmidt

General Auxiliary Officers of the Church

Relief Society

Belle Smith Spafford, President

Marianne Clark Sharp, First Counselor

Louise Wallace Madsen, Second Counselor