List of presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

This article lists the presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The included persons have served as President of the Church and prophet, seer, and revelator of the LDS Church.


No.	Portrait	President of the Church	Birth	Ordination	Death	Length
1		Joseph Smith	December 23, 1805	April 6, 1830 (de facto)^[1] January 25, 1832 (de jure)^[2]	June 27, 1844(1844-06-27) (aged 38)	14 years, 2 months (de facto) 12 years, 5 months (de jure)
	Church led by Brigham Young as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.					3 years, 6 months
2		Brigham Young	June 1, 1801	December 27, 1847	August 29, 1877(1877-08-29) (aged 76)	29 years, 8 months
	Church led by John Taylor as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.					3 years, 1 month
3		John Taylor	November 1, 1808	October 10, 1880	July 25, 1887(1887-07-25) (aged 78)	6 years, 9 months
	Church led by Wilford Woodruff as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.					1 year, 8 months
4		Wilford Woodruff	March 1, 1807	April 7, 1889	September 2, 1898(1898-09-02) (aged 91)	9 years, 4 months
5		Lorenzo Snow	April 3, 1814	September 13, 1898	October 10, 1901(1901-10-10) (aged 87)	3 years, 1 month
6		Joseph F. Smith	November 13, 1838	October 17, 1901	November 19, 1918(1918-11-19) (aged 80)	17 years, 1 month
7		Heber J. Grant	November 22, 1856	November 23, 1918	May 14, 1945(1945-05-14) (aged 88)	26 years, 5 months
8		George Albert Smith	April 4, 1870	May 21, 1945	April 4, 1951(1951-04-04) (aged 81)	5 years, 10 months
9		David O. McKay	September 8, 1873	April 9, 1951	January 18, 1970(1970-01-18) (aged 96)	18 years, 9 months
10		Joseph Fielding Smith	July 19, 1876	January 23, 1970	July 2, 1972(1972-07-02) (aged 95)	2 years, 5 months
11		Harold B. Lee	March 28, 1899	July 7, 1972	December 26, 1973(1973-12-26) (aged 74)	1 year, 5 months
12		Spencer W. Kimball	March 28, 1895	December 30, 1973	November 5, 1985(1985-11-05) (aged 90)	11 years, 10 months
13		Ezra Taft Benson	August 4, 1899	November 10, 1985	May 30, 1994(1994-05-30) (aged 94)	8 years, 6 months
14		Howard W. Hunter	November 14, 1907	June 5, 1994	March 3, 1995(1995-03-03) (aged 87)	9 months
15		Gordon B. Hinckley	June 23, 1910	March 12, 1995	January 27, 2008(2008-01-27) (aged 97)	12 years, 10 months
16		Thomas S. Monson	August 21, 1927	February 3, 2008	January 2, 2018(2018-01-02) (aged 90)	9 years, 11 months
17		Russell M. Nelson	September 9, 1924	January 14, 2018	Living; 99 years, 5 months	Current; 6 years, 1 month

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^ Smith became the "First Elder" of the church upon its organization. In this position, Smith acted as the highest leader of the church. However, the office of President of the Church was not formally created until 1832.
^ Smith was officially sustained as President of the High Priesthood of the church on this day at a general conference in Amherst, Ohio: Joseph Smith (B. H. Roberts (ed.), History of the Church 1:242–44.

References

"Presidents of the Church". LDS Church. Archived from the original on 2004-07-05. Retrieved 2009-05-07.

v t e Members of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Presidents of the Church	J. Smith Jr. (1830–44) B. Young Sr. (1847–77) Taylor (1880–87) Woodruff (1889–98) Snow (1898–1901) J.F. Smith Sr. (1901–18) Grant (1918–45) G.A. Smith (1945–51) McKay (1951–70) J.F. Smith Jr. (1970–72) Lee (1972–73) Kimball (1973–85) Benson (1985–94) Hunter (1994–95) Hinckley (1995–2008) Monson (2008–18) Nelson (2018–)
First Counselors	Gause (1832) Rigdon (1832–44) Kimball (1847–68) G.A. Smith (1868–75) J.W. Young (1876–77) Cannon (1880–1901) J.F. Smith Sr. (1901) Winder (1901–10) Lund (1910–21) Penrose (1921–25) Ivins (1925–34) Clark (1934–51; 1959–61) S.L. Richards (1951–59) Moyle (1961–63) Brown (1963–70) Lee (1970–72) Tanner (1972–82) Romney (1982–85) Hinckley (1985–95) Monson (1995–2008) Eyring (2008–18) Oaks (2018–)
Second Counselors	Rigdon (1832) Williams (1833–37) H. Smith (1837–41) Law (1841–44) W. Richards (1847–54) Grant (1854–56) Wells (1857–77) J.F. Smith Sr. (1880–1901) Clawson (1901) Lund (1901–10) J.H. Smith (1910–11) Penrose (1911–21) Ivins (1921–25) Nibley (1925–31) Clark (1933–34) McKay (1934–51) Clark (1951–59) Moyle (1959–61) Brown (1961–63) Tanner (1963–72) Romney (1972–82) Hinckley (1982–85) Monson (1985–95) Faust (1995–2007) Eyring (2007–08) Uchtdorf (2008–18) Eyring (2018–)

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