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Joseph Fielding Smith (July 19, 1876 – July
2, 1972) was the tenth President of the Church
(Mormonism)|president of Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints|The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints from 1970 to 1972.

He had been named to the Quorum of the Twelve
Apostles in 1910, when his father, with whom he
shared a name but who is generally referred to as
Joseph F. Smith, was President of the Church. No
Apostle since then has been as young as he was at
appointment; no Apostle has ever waited as long
before succeeding to the Church Presidency as the
almost sixty years that elapsed between Joseph
Fielding Smith's ordination in October 1910 and
the death of President David O. McKay in January
1970. Nor has any Church President succeeded at
such a high age. His time as President of the
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from 1951 to 1970
has been surpassed by few; he was next in
succession behind McKay as far back as 1934, and
spent McKay's whole nineteen-year presidency as
his heir apparent, while McKay had been heir
apparent to George Albert Smith for only eight
months in 1950-51.

Joseph Fielding Smith spent some of his years
among the Twelve Apostles as the Church Historian
and Recorder, and was known as a zealous
creationist.

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  title= President of the Church
(Mormonism)|President of the LDS Church |
  years= January 23, 1970–July 2, 1972  |
  before= David O. McKay |
  after= Harold B. Lee

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  title= President of the Quorum of the Twelve
Apostles|President of the Quorum of Twelve
Apostles |
  years= April 9, 1951–January 23, 1970 |
  before= David O. McKay |
  after= Harold B. Lee

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 title= Quorum of the Twelve Apostles |
 years= April 7, 1910–January 23, 1970 |
 before= Anthony W. Ivins |
 after= James E. Talmage 

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