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After graduating, he worked in Phoenix with the UnitedStatesDepartment of Agriculture. Upon the United States’ entrance into World War II, Peterson joined the U.S. Navy in 1942. A Glimpse of Glory (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft) ISBN 0-88494-590-1.

  • ——, "Unrighteous Dominion", Ensign, July 1989.
  • ——, "'Touch Not the Evil Gift, nor the Unclean Thing'", Ensign, November 1993.

    • References[edit]

    • Peggy Fletcher Stack, "Longtime LDS leader H.

      Burke Peterson dies at 89", The Salt Lake Tribune, 2013-04-17.

    • Joseph Walker, "Elder H. Burke Peterson, emeritus LDS general authority, dies at 89", Deseret News, 2013-04-17.
    • Norman R. Bowen, "Bishop H. Burke Peterson,"Ensign, July 1972, p. 16

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    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints titles
    Preceded by

    Robert L.

    Simpson

    		 First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric
    April 6, 1972 – April 6, 1985     		Succeeded by

    Henry B. Eyring

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    • H.D.

      On 6 April 1972, Peterson was appointed as first counselor to Victor L. Brown, the church's presiding bishop. Burton (1874–83)

    • Cannon (1884–86)
    • Winder (1887–1901)
    • O.P. Peterson recalls, “I felt we should be better acquainted before we went to the dance, so I asked her to a movie first, and that’s how it started.” They were engaged after two months and were married on June 27, 1947, in the Arizona Temple.

      He died on April 14, 2013. He became an emeritus general authority in 1993. He began his college studies at Phoenix College and studied civil engineering at the University of Oklahoma.

      When he was released from the presiding bishopric, Peterson became a member of the church's First Quorum of the Seventy.

    Who was H.

    Burke Peterson?

    Harold BurkePeterson was a generalauthority of The Church of JesusChrist of Latter-day Saints from 1972 until his death. Peterson served in the Pacific theater for two years and returned to America in June 1946.

    Peterson earned a bachelor of science degree from the University of Arizona. They were the parents of five daughters.

    biography burke petersen

    Upon his release, he was appointed to be a member in the First Quorum of the Seventy and the president of the Jordan River Utah Temple (1985–1987). Burke Peterson

    The son of Harold Anton and Juna Tye Peterson, Harold Burke Peterson was born on September 19, 1923, and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona.

    In 1947 Peterson married Brookie Cardon in the Mesa Arizona Temple.

    He served until October 2, 1993, when he was granted emeritus General Authority status. Miller (1907–18)

  • Smith (1918–38)
  • Ashton (1938–46)
  • Wirthlin (1946–52)
  • Isaacson (1952–61)
  • Simpson (1961–72)
  • Peterson (1972–85)
  • Eyring (1985–92)
  • H.D. Peterson continued his responsibilities as a general authority until he was granted emeritus status in October 1993.