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Marion George Romney (September 19,1897-May
20,1988) was a high-ranking official of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Born in Colonia Juarez, Mexico to parents who had
come from the United States to spread the Church,
he was a cousin of Michigan governor George W.
Romney, who was also born in Colonia Juarez.
Marion G. Romney's 47 years as a General Authority
of the Church began when he was the first person
ever ordained an Assistant to the Quorum of the
Twelve Apostles when that position was created in
1941 (it was abolished in 1976). In 1951 he was
advanced to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
himself,and served on that body until he became
Second Counselor in the First Presidency when
Harold B. Lee, with whom he had worked on the
Church Welfare program, became President of the
Church (Mormonism)|Church President in 1972.

Lee's death the following year brought Spencer W.
Kimball to the Church Presidency, but Kimball
retained Romney and First Counselor Nathan Eldon
Tanner in their positions. As Kimball, Tanner, and
Romney all became octogenarians and developed
health problems, it was decided to add an
additional counselor in 1981 and Gordon B.
Hinckley was chosen. Later that year Romney
dedicated a temple deputizing for Kimball, but
thereafter it was Hinckley who increasingly
shouldered the burdens of the First Presidency. On
Tanner's death in 1982 Romney was named First
Counselor and Hinckley Second Counselor, but
Romney was fairly inactive in this position; when
Kimball died in 1985 press reports indicated
Romney had not been seen in public for many
months.

Ezra Taft Benson,who had been President of the
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and thus heir
apparent to Kimball, named Hinckley his First
Counselor, while Romney,as the surviving Apostle
ordained next after Benson,succeeded as of right
to the position of President of the Twelve.
However, in recognition of Romney's continuing ill
health, Howard W. Hunter, who ranked next in
seniority, was made Acting President of the Quorum
of the Twelve, and Romney was never formally set
apart to his new position.

On Romney's death at age 90, the Church Almanac
remembered him as a "renowned Church Welfare
pioneer and Book of Mormon scholar".

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  before= Ezra Taft Benson |
  title= President of the Quorum of the Twelve
Apostles |
  years= November 5, 1985–May 20, 1988 |
  after= Howard W. Hunter

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 title= Quorum of the Twelve Apostles |
 years= October 11, 1951–1972
November
5, 1985–May 20, 1988 |
 before=Delbert L. Stapley |
 after= LeGrand Richards |

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