- Douglas J. Martin
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Douglas J. Martin 
First Quorum of the Seventy 4 April 1987 – 1 April 1989 Called by Ezra Taft Benson End reason Transferred to Second Quorum of the Seventy Second Quorum of the Seventy 1 April 1989 – 3 October 1992 Called by Ezra Taft Benson End reason Honorably released Personal details Born Douglas James Martin
20 April 1927
Napier, New Zealand[1]Died 23 January 2010 (aged 82)
Hamilton, New Zealand[1]Douglas James Martin (20 April 1927 – 23 January 2010) was a leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in New Zealand and was a general authority of the LDS Church from 1987 to 1992. He was the first New Zealand resident to become a general authority of the LDS Church.
Martin was born in Napier, New Zealand. He was introduced to the LDS Church by Amelia Wati Crawford, and he was baptised in 1951 at age 24. He was a missionary for the LDS Church from 1952 to 1954. In 1954, he and Crawford travelled to Hawaii and were married in the church's Laie Hawaii Temple.
Shortly after the Hamilton New Zealand Temple was completed in 1958, church president made Martin a sealer in the temple. From 1958 to 1962, he was the temple recorder.
Martin was also a bishop, stake president, and stake patriarch in Hamilton. When he was asked to become a general authority of the church, Martin was a regional representative of the Twelve. He joined the First Quorum of the Seventy in 1987, and in April 1989 became one of the inaugural members of the Second Quorum of the Seventy. He was released as a general authority and from full-time ecclesiastical duties in October 1992. From 1992 to 1995, he was the president of the Hamilton New Zealand Temple.[2]
Martin died in Hamilton at age 82.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c "Elder Douglas Martin, 82, dies", Church News, 2010-01-30.
- ^ Hamilton New Zealand LDS (Mormon) Temple Presidents, ldschurchtemples.com, accessed 2008-05-29.
References
- Derin Head Rodriguez (1990). From Every Nation (Salt Lake City, Utah: Shadow Mountain Publishers) ISBN 0875792510
- “Elder Douglas J. Martin of the First Quorum of the Seventy,” Ensign, May 1987, p. 90
- R. Lanier Britsch, “Roots of Faith,” Ensign, Sep. 1989, p. 44
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