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The Life of J. Reuben Clark, Jr. by Cleon Skousen
This speech was delivered at the Grantsville High School, Grantsville, Utah, on September 1, 1992.
Thank you. Thank you, Bill, and Mayor Murray, and Senator Mantese, and Representative Nielson, and all you wonderful distinguished people. I feel honored tonight to be here on this historic occasion, when we are initiating a whole new series of programs honoring this great friend and native of this community, J. Reuben Clark.
I'd like to say right here at the beginning: I wish I had Ron's voice. My, that was beautiful. I had a voice, not like that one, because mine is tenor. Thirty years ago I could really boot it out pretty good. But time has taken its toll. After an average of about 350 speeches a year for these many years, it's a little bit on the rusty side. But I appreciate a good voice when I hear one, and that was great tonight.
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I just want you to know what it did to me, rolling across this highway coming in here tonight. It's been a few years since I've been here. But I visualize
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“J. Reuben Clark Jr.: A Man of Uncommon Gifts,” Ensign, Apr. 2011, 71
Joshua Reuben Clark Jr. was born in Grantsville, Utah, on September 1, 1871. Though he had little formal education and was unable to attend high school, his mother had tutored him, and he loved learning. He graduated first in his class from the University of Utah with a bachelor of science degree and went on to receive a law degree from Columbia University law school in New York City.
Brother Clark married Luacine Annetta Savage in the Salt Lake Temple in 1898, and they became the parents of four children.
Armed with his law degree and a brilliant mind, J. Reuben Clark Jr. went on to a distinguished legal and civil service career that culminated in his being named U.S. ambassador to Mexico in 1930. That career ended, however, when Brother Clark was sustained as Second Counselor to President Heber J. Grant in the First Presidency on April 6, 1933. Although he was a high priest at the time, he was not a General Authority. He was ordained an Apostle when he was subsequently sustained as First Counselor to Pres
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Elder Statesman
Elder Statesman: A Biography of J. Reuben Clark
D. Michael Quinn
J. Reuben Clark was a marginal Mormon heavily involved in US government prior to his call to the LDS First Presidency. As a counselor to three church presidents—Heber J. Grant, George Albert Smith, and David O. McKay—he served longer than any other member of this high church council.
Already controversial before he assumed his church duties, his blunt, independent style created even more ripples at LDS headquarters. Still, his impact, intellectually and administratively, was immense. His most important legacy may well be the professionalization of church government; where apostles previously met and decided issues based mostly on their collective years of experience, Clark drew from his secular training to introduce outside research, position papers, and extended discussion, all of which, for better or for worse, added to the administrative bureaucracy.
In this impressive study of the “elder statesman,” as reporters labeled Clark, D. Michael Quinn considers what it mea
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