Mac Christensen

Mac Christensen (born 1934) is the founder of the Salt Lake City based clothing retailer "Mr. Mac". He also currently serves as the president of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Biography

Before opening his own business, Christensen had a background with clothing retail at a large Salt Lake City department store. In 1964 he opened his first store in Bountiful, Utah, which emphasized Mormon missionary apparel.

Christensen and his wife Joan are the parents of eight children. Their son Steve Christensen, a Salt Lake City business man and document dealer, was murdered by document forger Mark Hofmann in 1985.

Church service

Prior to becoming president of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christensen was director of the Washington DC Temple Visitors Center. Christensen became president of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 2000.

Politics and community

Christensen served for eight years as a member of the Weber State University Board of Trustees.

In 2006, Christensen co-chaired Orrin Hatch's Senate re-election campaign with Stan Parish.^[1] In 2010 he co-chaired the Senate campaign of Democrat Sam Granato, his friend.^[2]

Notes

1. ^ Aug 28, 2006 Salt Lake Tribune article
2. ^ Thomas Burr and Matt Canham (September 21, 2010). "D.C. Notebook: GOP responds to Bennett’s jabs". Salt Lake Tribune. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/49941349-78/bennett-granato-lee-campaign.html.csp. Retrieved 2010-10-04. 

Sources

• Mormon Tabernacle Choir bio
• history of Mr. Mac
• LDS Church News May 23, 2009
• Richard E. Turlye, Jr., Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hoffman Case (Champaign and Chicago: University of Illinois Press,1992) p. 149-150.

External links

• Mr. Mac Websites, Christensen's business

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