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Born: August 21, 1927

Became President: February 3, 2008

Died: January 2, 2018

Thomas S. Monson grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah against the backdrop of the Great Depression and WWII.

At 18, rather than waiting for the US Military to draft him, Thomas enlisted with the US Navy Reserve.

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After the war he earned his bachelor’s degree in marketing. During his childhood he was profoundly impacted by the deep love and compassion his parents, George S. and Gladys Monson, showed to others. Gladys often fed hungry transients that were passing through town “as though each had been an invited guest,” and his father would frequently drive his crippled brother Elias around town.

While at university Thomas met and married Frances Johnson on October7, 1948. After graduation he went to work as an advertising executive for Deseret News. In 1950, at the age of 22, Thomas was called as Bishop over the Temple View Sixth-Seventh Ward, a ward with 85 widows that Thom