LeGrand Richards
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| Quorum of the Twelve Apostles | |
| April 6, 1952 – January 11, 1983 | |
| LDS Church Apostle | |
| April 10, 1952 – January 11, 1983 | |
| Reason | Death of Joseph F. Merrill |
| Reorganization at end of term |
Russell M. Nelson and Dallin H. Oaks were ordained after the deaths of Richards and Mark E. Petersen |
| Presiding Bishop | |
| April 6, 1938 – April 6, 1952 | |
| End reason | Called to Quorum of the Twelve Apostles |
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February 6, 1886 Farmington, Utah Territory, United States |
| Died | January 11, 1983 (aged 96) Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
| Resting place |
Salt Lake City Cemetery 40°46′37.92″N 111°51′28.8″W / 40.7772000°N 111.858000°W |
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LeGrand Richards (February 6, 1886 – January 11, 1983) was a prominent missionary and leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He served as the seventh presiding bishop of the LDS Church from 1938 to 1952, and was then called as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles by church president David O. McKay. Richards served in the Quorum of the Twelve until his death in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the age of 96.
Richards was born in Farmington, Utah Territory, to George F. Richards and Alice Almira Robinson. His father also served in the Quorum of the Twelve. As a young boy, Richards had several accidents that could have taken his life, including as a small child, when he was struck in the head by an axe as he approached from behind while his father was chopping wood. A few years later, Richards was thrown from a wagon by an agitated horse and both the wagon wheels rolled over his head. As a child, Richards attended the 1893 dedication of the Salt Lake Temple. Richards's church service began when he filled a proselytizing mission to the Netherlands from 1905 to 1908.
After returning from his mission, Richards held various jobs in Salt Lake City, including doing audits in the office of the Presiding Bishopric. In 1909, he married Ina Jane Ashton (who normally went by Jane) in the Salt Lake Temple. They would become the parents of eight children.
Richards returned to the Netherlands as the presiding elder over the mission, accompanied by his wife, Ina Jane Ashton, from 1914 to 1916. Richards was ordained a high priest and bishop on June 29, 1919, by Charles W. Penrose, and presided over a Salt Lake City ward from 1920 to 1925. In 1926, he filled a short term mission, primarily serving in Rhode Island. In the early 1930s, church president Heber J. Grant sent Richards to southern California with the plan to call him as stake president. However, the existing stake president called Richards as a bishop and convinced Grant to hold off on calling Richards as the stake president so local members would not feel that an outsider was being imposed on them as a leader. From 1931 to 1933, Richards presided over the church's Hollywood Stake.
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