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Marlin Keith Jensen (b. May 18, 1942) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1989 and has been the twentieth official Church Historian and Recorder of the church since 2001. Jensen was born in Huntsville, Utah. As a 19-year-old, he served as a missionary for the LDS Church in West Germany. He obtained a law degree from the University of Utah and served as a bishop of the church at the age of 28. In 1989, Jensen became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. In 1993 to 1995, while a general authority, Jensen served as the mission president in the New York Rochester Mission of the church. He served in the First Quorum of the Seventy until 1998, when he became a member of the Presidency of the Seventy. Jensen was in this position until 2001, when he was asked to succeed John K. Carmack as Church Historian and Recorder. In 2000 and 2001, Jensen was the general president of the church's Sunday School. Jensen is one of the few general authorities of the LDS Church who self-identifies politically as a member of the Democratic Party. He featured prominently in the 2007 PBS documentary The Mormons . Jensen married Kathleen Bushnell in 1967 in the Salt Lake Temple. They are the parents of eight children.
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