LDS Apostles - Who Called Who

Joseph Smith

JOSEPH SMITH (1830-1844)

-Oliver Cowdery (excommunicated, rebaptized)

-David Whitmer (ex'd)

-Martin Harris (ex'd, rebaptized)

-Thomas B. Marsh (ex'd, rebaptized)

-David W. Patten (killed)

-Brigham Young (P)

-Heber C. Kimball

-Orson Hyde (removed, re-added with lost seniority)

-William E. M'Lellin (ex'd)

-Parley P. Pratt (killed)

-Luke S. Johnson (ex'd, rebaptized)

-William Smith (ex'd)

-Orson Pratt (removed, re-added with lost seniority)

-John F. Boynton (ex'd)

-Lyman E. Johnson (ex'd)

-John E. Page (ex'd)

-John Taylor (P)(English)

-Wilford Woodruff (P)
-George A. Smith

-Willard Richards

-Hyrum Smith (killed)

-Lyman Wight (ex'd)

-Amasa Lyman (ex'd)

*Note: Although Joseph called Sidney Rigdon to be a member of the First Presidency at one point, he was never called as an Apostle.

BRIGHAM YOUNG (1847-1877)

-Ezra T. Benson

-Charles C. Rich

-Lorenzo Snow (P)

-Erastus Snow

-Franklin D. Richards

-Jedidiah M. Grant

-John Willard Young (resigned)

-Daniel H. Wells

-George Q. Cannon (English)

-Joseph F. Smith (P)

-Joseph Angell Young

-Brigham Young Jr.

-Albert Carrington (ex'd, rebaptized)

JOHN TAYLOR (1880-1887)

-Moses Thatcher (dropped from Q12)

-Francis M. Lyman

-John Henry Smith

-George Teasdale (English)
-Heber J. Grant (P)

-John W. Taylor (ex'd)

WILFORD WOODRUFF (1889-1898)

-Marriner W. Merrill (Canadian)
-Anthon H. Lund (Danish)
-Abraham H. Cannon

-Matthias F. Cowley (resigned)

-Abraham O. Woodruff

LORENZO SNOW (1898-1901)

-Rudger Clawson

-Reed Smoot

JOSEPH F. SMITH (1901-1918)

-Hyrum M. Smith

-George Albert Smith (P)

-Charles W. Penrose (English)

-Orson F. Whitney
-George F. Richards

-David O. McKay (P)

-Anthony W. Ivins

-Joseph Fielding Smith (P)

-James E. Talmage (English)

-Stephen L. Richards

-Richard R. Lyman (ex'd in 1943, the most recent)

HEBER J. GRANT (1918-1945)

-Melvin J. Ballard

-John A. Widtsoe (Norweigan)

-Joseph F. Merrill

-Charles A. Callis (Irish)

-J. Reuben Clark

-Alonzo Hinckley

-Albert E. Bowen

-Sylvester Q. Cannon

-Harold B. Lee (P)

-Spencer W. Kimball (P)

-Ezra Taft Benson (P)

-Mark E. Petersen

GEORGE ALBERT SMITH (1945-1951)

-Matthew Cowley

-Henry D. Moyle

-Delbert L.Stapley

DAVID O. McKAY (1951-1970)

-Marion G. Romney

-LeGrand Richards

-Adam S. Bennion

-Richard L. Evans

-George Q. Morris

-Hugh B. Brown

-Howard W. Hunter (P)

-Gordon B. Hinckley (P)

-N. Eldon Tanner

-Thomas S. Monson (P)

-Alvin R. Dyer

JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH (1970-1972)

-Boyd K. Packer

-Marvin J. Ashton

HAROLD B. LEE (1972-1973)

-Bruce R. McConkie

SPENCER W. KIMBALL (1973-1985)

-David B. Haight

-L. Tom Perry

-James E. Faust

-Neal A. Maxwell

-Russell M. Nelson

-Dallin H. Oaks

-M. Russell Ballard

EZRA TAFT BENSON (1985-1994)

-Joseph B. Wirthlin

-Richard G. Scott

-Robert D. Hales

HOWARD W. HUNTER (1994-1995)

-Jeffrey R. Holland

GORDON B. HINCKLEY (1995-2008)

-Henry B. Eyring

-Dieter F. Uchtdorf (German)

-David A. Bednar

-Quentin L. Cook

THOMAS S. MONSON (2008-Present)

-D. Todd Christofferson

-Neil L. Anderson