115 years ago today - Nov 9, 1901

Joseph F. Smith proposes to sustain the Presiding Patriarch above the Quorum of the Twelve, which his counselors and apostles oppose. At a special conference the next day which sustains him as church president and his half-brother as Presiding Patriarch, Smith says that the church patriarch technically should be sustained above the church president.

[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]

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