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David O. McKay - Ninth Prophet

The Lord has said that the three presiding High Priests, chosen by the body, appointed and ordained to this office of the Presidency, are to be "upheld by the confidence, faith and prayer of the Church." No one can preside over this Church without first being in tune with the head of the Church, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He is our head. This is his Church. Without his divine guidance and constant inspiration, we cannot succeed. With his guidance, with his inspiration we cannot fail…. I know the reality of his existence, of his willingness to guide and direct all who serve him. I know he restored, with his father, to the Prophet Joseph Smith the gospel of Jesus Christ in all its fullness…. I pledge to you that I shall do my best so to live as to merit the companionship of the Holy Spirit, and pray here in your presence, that my counselors and I may indeed be "partakers of the Divine Spirit."

~ David O. McKay
(From a sermon by President David O. McKay at General

Conference, Salt Lake Tabernacle, April 9, 1951)

 DAVID O. MCKAY was born in Huntsville, Utah, September 8, 1873. He was graduated from the University of Utah in 1897 and in August of that year was ordained a Seventy and served as a missionary in Scotland until 1899. He became principal of Weber Academy in 1899 and served until 1906. He was ordained an apostle April 9, 1906. For many years he served as assistant in the General Superintendency of the Deseret Sunday school Union and was General Superintendent from November 1918 to 1934. He was appointed commissioner of the Church School System in 1919 and made a world tour of the missions of the Church in 1921 and 1922. President McKay presided over the European Mission from 1922 to 1924 and was sustained as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1950. He served as chairman of the Utah Centennial Commission from 1938 to 1948. He was second counselor in the First Presidency to President Heber J. Grant and President George Albert Smith and became President of the Church upon the death of President Smith in April 1951 President McKay dedicated temples in Bern, Switzerland, in September1955; in Los Angels, California, in 1956; in New Zealand in May 1958. Also in 1958 he dedicated Church colleges in New Zealand and Hawaii.

Ninth President of the Church

Succession:  Succeeded George Albert Smith as President of the Church.
Birth date: September 8, 1873
Birthplace: Huntsville, Utah
Called as president, date: April 9, 1951
Called as president, age: 77
Years as president: 18
Fact: Worked as a teacher, then principal of Weber Academy in Ogden, Utah.
Fact: Served a mission to Scotland.
Fact: First Apostle to tour all the missions of the world.