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[[Image:HeberGrant.jpg|right| 200px|thumb| LDS Prophet Heber J. Grant]]

[[Image:HeberGrant.jpg|right|200px|thumb| LDS Prophet Heber J. Grant]]

'''Heber Jeddy Grant''' (b. November 22, 1856; d. May 14, 1945) was prophet and seventh President of the  [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. Heber would enforce the ban on plural marriages and excommunicated member Churches that refused loyalty to the directive. He developed The Avenues section of Salt Lake City. In 1936, Heber established the LDS Welfare Program and administered the LDS health code known as the ''Word of Wisdom''. Due to the Church's expansion, Heber created a new group of General Authorities, Assistants to the Twelve Apostles. His authority conveyed strength and resolution. He repeatedly spoke of the need for charity, duty, honor, service, and work. Heber was the last surviving member of the church's Council of Fifty. His 26-year administration would be the second longest in Church history. <ref>[http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/people/heber_j_grant.html Heber J. Grant] Light Planet</ref>

'''Heber Jeddy Grant''' (November 22, 1856 – May 14, 1945) was prophet and seventh President of the  [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. Heber would enforce the ban on plural marriages and excommunicated member Churches that refused loyalty to the directive. He developed The Avenues section of Salt Lake City. In 1936, Heber established the LDS Welfare Program and administered the LDS health code known as the ''Word of Wisdom''. Due to the Church's expansion, Heber created a new group of General Authorities, Assistants to the Twelve Apostles. His authority conveyed strength and resolution. He repeatedly spoke of the need for charity, duty, honor, service, and work. Heber was the last surviving member of the church's Council of Fifty. His 26-year administration would be the second longest in Church history.<ref>[http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/people/heber_j_grant.html Heber J. Grant] Light Planet</ref>

==Early Life==

==Early life==

Heber was born to Jedediah M. Grant and Rachel Grant in Salt Lake City, in the [[Utah]] Territory. His father had served as Brigham Young's counselor in the First Presidency. He grew up without his father who died nine days after his birth. Heber and Rachel moved to a "widow's cabin" on Main Street. Rachel supported the family by sewing and taking in boarders. Many evenings, a young Heber would help his mother by pumping the sewing machine treadle. Heber was enrolled in good private schools, beginning with Brigham Young's school. Following frontier practice, he left school at age 16. In 1875, Grant was called as a counselor to the president of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association at age nineteen. He became an insurance business man. In addition to the insurance agency, he was owner or principal investor in leading agricultural entities, a livery stable, a leading Salt Lake City newspaper, a bank, the famed Salt Lake Theatre, and the Utah Sugar Company. <ref>[http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/g/GRANT,HEBER.html HEBER J. GRANT] University of Utah</ref> His hard work paid off, Heber would earn ten times what the average Utah salary was. He was appointed by [[Brigham Young]] as assistant cashier of Zion's Savings Bank. Before the age of 24, he received his church's call to preside over the [[Tooele Stake]]. Twice he proselytized among the dangerous Yaqui Indians in [[Mexico]], and his many tours to the Southwest earned him the title "the [[Arizona]] Apostle." <ref>[http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/people/heber_j_grant.html Heber J. Grant] Light Planet</ref>  At age 26, President [[John Taylor]] appointed him to the Council of Twelve Apostles. The hard times of the 1890s and his subsequent mission calls to [[Japan]] and [[Great Britain]] ended his business career.  

Heber was born to Jedediah M. Grant and Rachel Grant in Salt Lake City, in the [[Utah]] Territory. His father had served as Brigham Young's counselor in the First Presidency. He grew up without his father who died nine days after his birth. Heber and Rachel moved to a "widow's cabin" on Main Street. Rachel supported the family by sewing and taking in boarders. Many evenings, a young Heber would help his mother by pumping the sewing machine treadle. Heber was enrolled in good private schools, beginning with Brigham Young's school. Following frontier practice, he left school at age 16. In 1875, Grant was called as a counselor to the president of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association at age nineteen. He became an insurance business man. In addition to the insurance agency, he was owner or principal investor in leading agricultural entities, a livery stable, a leading Salt Lake City newspaper, a bank, the famed Salt Lake Theatre, and the Utah Sugar Company.<ref>[http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/g/GRANT,HEBER.html HEBER J. GRANT] University of Utah</ref> His hard work paid off, Heber would earn ten times what the average Utah salary was. He was appointed by [[Brigham Young]] as assistant cashier of Zion's Savings Bank. Before the age of 24, he received his church's call to preside over the [[Tooele Stake]]. Twice he proselytized among the dangerous Yaqui Indians in [[Mexico]], and his many tours to the Southwest earned him the title "the [[Arizona]] Apostle." <ref>[http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/people/heber_j_grant.html Heber J. Grant] Light Planet</ref>  At age 26, President [[John Taylor]] appointed him to the Council of Twelve Apostles. The hard times of the 1890s and his subsequent mission calls to [[Japan]] and [[Great Britain]] ended his business career.  

==Seventh President==

==Seventh President==