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Paul H. Dunn

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Born: April 23 1924

Died: 0808 01 19981998

Born in Provo, Utah to Joshua Harold Dunn and Geneve Roberts, Dunn was baptized a member of the LDS Church at the age of eight. Dunn earned a bachelor's degree from Chapman College in 1953 and a master's and a doctorate degree in educational administration from the University of Southern California.

Dunn began his long career of full-time service in the LDS Church in 1952 as a seminary teacher for the Church Educational System in Los Angeles. On April 6, 1964, church president David O. McKay asked Dunn to join the First Council of the Seventy and to become a general authority of the LDS Church. While in this position, Dunn was the president of the church's New England Mission from 1968 to 1971.

In 1976, Dunn became a member of the newly constituted First Quorum of the Seventy. He remained as a member of this quorum until he received general authority emeritus status on October 1, 1989. Additionally, Dunn served as one of the seven Presidents of the Seventy from 1976 to 1980. Dunn wrote over 50 books during his time as a general authority.

Dunn married Jeanne Alice Cheverton on February 27, 1946; they were the parents of three daughters. Dunn was named Utah’s Father of the Year in 1972. He died of cardiac arrest in Salt Lake City while recovering from back surgery in 1998.

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Paul H. Dunn

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Books from Paul H. Dunn

The Birth We Call Death

I Challenge You ... I Promise You, Volume 1

No Greater Gift

Life Planning

I Challenge You . . . I Promise You . . . Volume II

Christmas: Do You Hear What I Hear

Seek the Happy Life

Relationships; self, family, God

Anxiously Engaged

I Challenge You... I Promise You...

Variable Clouds Occasional Rain With a Promise of Sunshine

Horizons

Testimony

I Challenge You . . . I Promise You . . . Volume II

Discovering the Quality of Success

Knowing, being, doing, and then some

Meaningful Living

Success Formulas

Your Eternal Choice

Goals