60 years ago today - Apr 12, 1951

David O. McKay becomes the first LDS church president to be "ordained" since the Joseph Smith. Apostle Joseph Fielding Smith "ordained and set apart" President McKay. At seventy-four Apostle Smith may have forgotten his own father's restriction against ordaining presidents of the LDS church.

[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]

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