Item Detail
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25968
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6
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57
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English
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Succession by Seniority : The Development of Procedural Precedents, in the LDS Church
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Journal of Mormon History
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Spring 2014
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40
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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92-158
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For more than a century, featuring the last dozen instances of succession, the process of establishing who would be the new president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been entirely predictable and therefore routine. Thus, most current members of the Church assume that the contemporary tradition has always been so. But that simply was not the case. When the question of succession arose with the deaths of the first Church presidents, it generated a considerable range of disagreements and disputes. This article reviews each of these succession "crises", particularly the third instance when the organization of Wilford Woodruff's First Presidency occurred only after a difficult delay that generated almost-concealed but significant controversies. [From the article]
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