Ben B. Banks
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Benjamin Berry Banks (born 1932-04-04) was a member of the Presidency of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1999 to 2002 and has been a general authority of the LDS Church since 1989. Banks has also been a president of the church's Jordan River Utah Temple.
Banks was born in Murray, Utah.
Among church positions Banks held prior to his call as a general authority was that of stake president[1] and bishop. From 1987 to 1989 he was president of the church's Scotland Edinburgh Mission.
On 1989-04-01, Banks was called as a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy; he became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy in 1992. Among other assigments while a general authority, Banks served for a time as Assistant Director of the church's Historical Department.[2] He served as president of the Utah South Area of the church during the late 1990s.[3] In 1997, Banks presided at the groundbreaking for the Monticello Utah Temple.[4]
In 2002, Banks became an emeritus general authority and the president of the Jordan River Utah Temple.[5] He continued in this position until 2005.[6]
In September 2005 Banks was called to serve with his wife Susan as directors of Church Hosting.[7] He was still serving as in this position in 2006.[8]
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- 2008 Deseret Morning News Church Almanac (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Morning News, 2007), p. 89
