Latter-day Saints

  • Heber J. Grant
  • Harold B. Lee
    • 1958 0718 - NYT - Equitable Life Elects Churchman to Board - [link]
      • The election of Harold B. Lee of Salt Lake City as a director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States was announced yesterday by James F. Oates Jr., president. Mr. Lee is managing director of the welfare program of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon Church). He is an elder of the church and a member of its Council of Twelve Apostles. Mr. Lee is also a director of the Beneficial Life Insurance Company and of the Union Pacific Railroad.
  • Spencer L. Kimball
  • Grant Taggart
  • Howard Cannon (D-NV)
    • 1959-1983 - US Senator
  • Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)
    • 2009-2016 - US House
  • Mike Crapo (R-ID)
    • 1993-Current (as of 2025)
  • Jake Garn (R-UT)
    • 1974-1993 - US Senator
  • Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
    • 1977-2019 - US Senator
  • Cecil Heftel (D-HI)
    • 1977-1986 - US House
  • John E. Moss (D-UT)
    • 1953-1978 - US House
  • Burgess Owens (R-UT)
  • Harry Reid (D-NV)
    • 1983-1987 - US House
    • 1987-2017 - US Senator
  • B.H. Roberts (D-UT)
    • 1898 - Not seated due to his practice of polygamy19 - Wikipedia
      • 19 - Roberts, Brigham H (1965). A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Vol. 6. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press. ISBN0-8425-0482-6.
  • Mitt Romney (R-UT)
    • 2019-2025 - US Senator
  • Reed Smoot (R-UT)
    • 1903-1933 - US Senator
    • 1903-07 - Reed Smoot Hearings
      • 1904 Mar. 1-5, 8-12, Apr. 20-23, 25-27, May 2 - GOV (Senate) - Proceedings in the Matter of the Protests Against the Right of Hon. Reed Smoot, a Senator from the State of Utah, to Hold His Seat: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, Fifty-Ninth Congress, First Session and Fifty-Eighth Congress, Second Session
      • 1905 Dec. 12-17, 19, 20, 1904, Jan. 10-13, 16, 17 - - GOV (Senate) - Proceedings in the Matter of the Protests Against the Right of Hon. Reed Smoot, a Senator from the State of Utah, To Hold His Seat. Vol. 2 hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, Fifty-Ninth Congress, first session and Fifty-Eighth Congress, third session
      • 1906 Feb. 6-9, Mar. 26, 27, Apr. 12, 13 - GOV (Senate) - Proceedings in the Matter of the Protests Against the Right of Hon. Reed Smoot, a Senator from the State of Utah, To Hold His Seat: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, Fifty-Ninth Congress, First Session
    • 1997 - Book - In the World: The Diaries of Reed Smoot - 840p
  • Associated American Mutual Life Insurance Co.
  • Beneficial Financial
  • Beneficial Life Insurance
  • Deseret Mutual Benefit Association
  • Deseret News
  • Ensign Peak
  • Guardian Causalty Co.
  •  2015 0531 - Deseret News - Is your financial house in order? 10 questions for Latter-day Saint families, by Nate Sharp - [link]
    • My suggestion is to avoid permanent life insurance, including universal and whole life insurance, because the associated fees and commissions are usually expensive, and because the investment portion generally underperforms other investment options.
  • 2018 0515 - Mormon Stories Podcast - Mission President, CES Director, and Deseret Trust Co. Roger Hendrix Pt. 4 - Mormon Stories Ep. 922 - [VIDEO-YouTube-01:07:24]
    • 00:19:00 - President of Prudential is on the Board of Deseret Trust Co.
    • 00:30:45 - Some of the Remainder of the Trust goes to Church
    • 00:35:00 - People could request where the money could go. ie. BYU-Idaho, etc. Childhood diseases - Redwoods,
      • John: What does the Church get out of running a Trust Company?
  • When referring to Church members, the terms "members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," "Latter-day Saints," "members of the Church of Jesus Christ" and "members of the restored Church of Jesus Christ" are preferred. We ask that the term "Mormons" and "LDS" not be used.
  • "Mormon" is correctly used in proper names such as the Book of Mormon or when used as an adjective in such historical expressions as "Mormon Trail."

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  • 2025 05  - Mormons - America's Wealthiest Religion | A Documentary - youtube.com/watch?v=tmCl4GIZjiI
    • Heber Grant - Life Insurance
    • Beneficial Life
    • 44 - Ensign Peak
      • David N - Whistleblower - IRS
    • 46 - SEC - Settlement - 5 million
    • Tithing, Compound Interest
  • 2005 - SOA - Search for Predictors of Exceptional Human Longevity: Using Computerized Genealogies and Internet Resources for Human Longevity Studies, m-li05-1-v.pdf - Society of Actuaries - 105p
    • The compilers of genealogies aided this time-consuming task by using many different sources: genealogical libraries, The Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints (Mormon) family history centers, genealogical search engines available on the Internet, computer CDs with census, marriage, land and probate records, and many other resources for genealogical research.
  • Reed Smoot hearings - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Smoot_hearings
    • Joseph F. Smith
  • Joseph F. Smith
    • 2013 04 - AP - And Now It Is the Mormons: The Magazine Crusade against the Mormon Church, 1910-1911, by Kenneth L. Cannon, II, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 46 (1) - 63p watermark.silverchair.com/dialjmormthou.46.1.0001.pdf? - LINK - 63p
      • p12 - Hendrick had already written critically acclaimed exposés of, among other subjects, the life insurance industry and those who made "great American fortunes" in financing street railways, and he found the Mormon marriage practice at least as disturbing.38
      • p18 - ... Mormons bought insurance from companies whose president was Joseph F. Smith ...
      • p50 - 53. Cannon and O'Higgins, "Under the Prophet in Utah-The Prophet and Big Business," Everybody's 25 (August 1911): 209-215. The cover page of this article shows Joseph F. Smith as the cashier and lists a sugar company, a salt company, banks, a department store, a farm-implements business, insurance companies, and a newspaper, all of which had Joseph F. Smith as president.
  • 1985 0402 - Chicago Tribune - MORMON-OWNED INSURANCE FIRMS SUE UTAH OVER CLAIMS ASSESSMENT - [link]
  • 2023 - LC - Huntsman v. CORPORATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS - OPINION - 41p
    • UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
    • No. 21-56056 
    • D.C. No. 2:21-cv02504-SVW-SK
    • p2 - He further alleged that he relied on false and misleading statements by the Church that tithing money was not used to finance commercial projects, when in fact the Church used tithing money to finance a shopping mall development and to bail out a troubled for-profit life insurance company owned by the Church. 
    • p5 - After limited discovery, the district court granted the Church's motion for summary judgment. It held that no reasonable juror could find that the Church had fraudulently misrepresented how tithing funds were used.`
      • We disagree with respect to the shopping mall but agree with respect to the life insurance company. 
    • p12 - B. Fraud Claims - Huntsman brings two fraud claims.
      • Second, he claims that the Church fraudulently misrepresented that tithing funds would not be used to bail out the Beneficial Life Insurance Company. We address these two claims in turn.
        • p29 - 2. Beneficial Life Insurance Company - The district court granted summary judgment to the Church on Huntsman's fraud claim with respect to bail-out payments to the Beneficial Life Insurance Company. The district court held that there was no actionable statement in the record by a representative of the Church with respect to Beneficial Life.
  • H. J. Grant, Insurance and Church Leader in West, Dies
    • Heber J. Grant, 88, probably the oldest insurance executive in point of service and age in the west, died at his home in Salt Lake City after an illness of several weeks.
    • He was president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at his death, a post he had held for 26 years. He had been president of Utah Home Fire for some years, he established the Heber J. Grant & Co. general agency in 1886 and continuously headed it until his death, and he had been president of Beneficial Life of Salt Lake City since 1918.
    • He entered the insurance business at the age of 15 as a clerk for a Salt Lake City insurance office. Thus his insurance career spans the amazing total of 75 years. He was a unique combination of business and ecclesiastical leader. He was the supreme head, spiritual as well as temporal of the Utah branch of the Mormon church.
    • Two of Mr. Grant's sons-in-laws are prominent in insurance, G. J. Cannon, executive vice-president of Beneficial Life, vice-president of Grant & Co., and vice-president of Utah Home Fire, and J. G. Midgley, manager-treasurer of the Grant & Co. general agency.
    • Mr. Grant was born in Salt Lake City in 1856, shortly after the Mormon settlement was founded. His father was the first mayor and a close associate of Brigham Young. He was the father of nine daughters. They and his widow survive. 

1945  0518 - The National Underwriter - Life Insurance Edition - 84p