Joseph Anderson (Mormon)

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Joseph Anderson
Emeritus General Authority
December 31, 1978 (1978-12-31) – March 13, 1992 (1992-03-13)
Called by	Spencer W. Kimball
First Quorum of the Seventy
October 1, 1976 (1976-10-01) – December 31, 1978 (1978-12-31)
Called by	Spencer W. Kimball
End reason	Granted general authority emeritus status
Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
April 6, 1970 (1970-04-06) – October 1, 1976 (1976-10-01)
Called by	Joseph Fielding Smith
End reason	Position abolished
Personal details
Born	Joseph Anderson (1889-11-20)November 20, 1889 Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, United States
Died	March 23, 1992(1992-03-23) (aged 102) 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 / 40.7772000; -111.858000 (Salt Lake City Cemetery)

Joseph Anderson (November 20, 1889 – March 13, 1992) was the secretary to the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1922 to 1970 and was a general authority of the church from 1970 until his death.

Anderson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory in 1889, the same year that Wilford Woodruff became President of the Church. Anderson graduated from the Weber Stake Academy (now Weber State University) in 1905. A few years later he served as a missionary in Germany and Switzerland.^[1]

Anderson became secretary to the First Presidency of the church in 1922. On 6 April 1970, church president Joseph Fielding Smith released Anderson from his secretarial duties and called him to serve as an Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. When that calling was abolished in 1976, Anderson was ordained a Seventy and became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. In 1978, Anderson became an emeritus general authority and was relieved of his day-to-day duties as a Seventy. Anderson died in Salt Lake City at the age of 102 and was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery.

Anderson is one of four church general authorities to reach the age of 100. The others are former Presiding Patriarch, Eldred G. Smith, who in 2009 surpassed Anderson as the longest-lived general authority in LDS Church history,^{[citation needed]} the third is emeritus general authority Robert L. Backman, and the fourth is church president Russell M. Nelson.

Anderson married Norma Ettie Peterson in 1915.^[2] The couple had three children.

• D. Arthur Haycock

• "Elder Joseph Anderson Eulogized", Ensign, May 1992, p. 105.

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• Joseph Anderson at Find a Grave

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