Marvin Jeremy Ashton (May 6, 1915 – February 25, 1994) was a Utah politician and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church), Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1971 until his death in 1994.
Ashton was born to Marvin O. Ashton and Rachel Grace Jeremy in Salt Lake City, Utah.
["Death: Marvin J. Ashton"]
''Deseret News'', 27 February 1994. Retrieved on 17 March 2020. His father was a local LDS leader and later became a church general authority. Ashton worked in the lumber business as a youth. He graduated from the University of Utah. He worked as managing director of Family Services, LDS Social Services. Ashton served as a member of the Utah State Senate from 1957 to 1961 as a Republican Party (United States), Republican. He was also president of Deseret Book and involved in other business ventures including a lumber company.
LDS Church service
Ashton served a Mormon missionary, mission in Great Britain from 1937 to 1939 during which time he edited the ''Millennial Star''.
His mission president was Hugh B. Brown. From 1958 to 1969, Ashton was an assistant to the general superintendent of the church's Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association. He served as an assistant to superintendents Joseph T. Bentley and G. Carlos Smith.
He was named managing director of the then-newly formed Church Social Services Department in September 1969.
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"How Elder Marvin J. Ashton faced his ‘battle with time’"
''Church News'', 23 August 2019. Retrieved on 17 March 2020. A month later he was named an Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Ashton was ordained an Apostle (Latter Day Saints), apostle on December 2, 1971, after the death of Richard L. Evans.
Among his assignments, he was president of the Polynesian Cultural Center and a member of the board of trustees of Brigham Young University–Hawaii.
Ashton died on February 25, 1994, and at the time of his death was serving as chairman of the church's Leadership Training Committee and was also a member of both the Correlation Executive and the General Welfare Services committees.
"Marvin J. Ashton"
''Orlando Sentinel'', 27 February 1994. Retrieved on 17 March 2020. The vacancy created in the Quorum of the Twelve was filled by Robert D. Hales.[Flake, Lawrence R]
"Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation"
''BYU Religious Studies Center'', Retrieved on 14 March 2020.
Personal life
Ashton married Norma Berntson in the Salt Lake Temple on August 22, 1940, and they were the parents of four children.
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See also
*Carl W. Buehner
*George R. Hill III
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External links
General Authorities and General Officers: Elder Marvin J. Ashton
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1915 births
1994 deaths
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