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Oaks married June Dixon (born 1933) on June 24, 1952. She died from cancer on July 21, 1998. They had six children, including Dallin D. Oaks, a linguistics professor at BYU, [ 104 ] and Jenny Oaks Baker , a violinist. [ 6 ]
Baker is a daughter of Dallin H. Oaks and June Oaks (née Dixon). Her father is an attorney and former president of Brigham Young University, served as a Utah Supreme Court justice, and as of 2024 is the second-ranking leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [8]
On January 16, 2018, the church announced that due to the call of Dallin H. Oaks as a counselor in the First Presidency, M. Russell Ballard would serve as Acting President. [5] After Ballard's death on November 12, 2023, Jeffrey R. Holland was set apart as the new acting president on November 15. [6]
1. Emeritus general authorities are individuals who have been released from active duties as general authorities. However, they remain general authorities of the church until their death. Except for the three former members of the Presiding Bishopric noted, all living emeritus general authorities are former members of the First or Second Quorums of the Seventy. 2. These former members of the ...
The Nauvoo Expositor. The Nauvoo Expositor was a newspaper in Nauvoo, Illinois, that published only one issue.Its publication, and the destruction of the printing press ordered by Mayor Joseph Smith and the city council, set off a chain of events that led to Smith's arrest for treason and subsequent killing at the hands of a lynch mob.
Oaks was born on February 14, 1936, in Los Angeles, California to Charles and Ann Oaks. He grew up in Provo, Utah, where he graduated from Brigham Young High School in 1954. In 1959, Oaks was in the first class to graduate from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, receiving a bachelor's degree in Military Science.
Dallin H. Oaks: 1954 B.A. Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles [39] Russell T. Osguthorpe: 1971 1973 1975 B.A. M.A. Ph.D. Sunday School General President [280] Boyd K. Packer: 1962 Ed.D. Former president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles [281] Reed Smoot: 1876 B.A. Former member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles [7] Belle Spafford ...
Dallin H. Oaks (born 1932), American attorney, jurist, author, professor, public speaker, and religious leader; David Oaks, American executive director of MindFreedom International; Harold Anthony Oaks (1896-1968), Canadian World War I flying ace; Jeff Oaks, American poet; Louis D. Oaks, American Chief of Police for Los Angeles