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Dean LeRoy Larsen (b. May 24, 1927) was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1976 to 1993 and was the eighteenth Church Historian and Recorder from 1985 to 1989. Larsen was born in Hyrum, Utah. After briefly serving in the United States Navy at the end of the Second World War, Larson attended the University of Utah and Utah State University, graduating from Utah State with a degree in English and Spanish. In 1962, Larsen was appointed the secretary of the Church Indian Committee. He taught for one year at the Institute of Religion at the University of Utah and then was asked to become the president of the Texas South Mission of the church. Upon completing this three-year assignment, Larsen taught at the Institute of Religion in Ogden, Utah. In the church he also served as a bishop and as a Regional Representative of the Twelve Apostles. In 1976, Larsen became the editor of all church magazines. Later that year, he became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, a position he retained until he became an emeritus general authority in 1993. During his tenure, he served a five-year term as Church Historian and Recorder, succeeding G. Homer Durham. After he was released, John K. Carmack became the new Church Historian. From 1998 to 2001 Larsen was the president of the church's Provo Utah Temple and from 2001 to 2004 was president of the Lima Peru Temple. Larsen is married to Geneal Johnson and they are the parents of five children.
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