1. Full name
: Russell Marion Nelson
2.Before full-time church service, he was a heart surgeon and medical researcher.
3.He became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on April 7, 1984.
4.He served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during the Korean War
5.On January 14, 2018, Nelson was sustained and set apart as the 17th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
6. Age at death
: He died at age
101
, making him the oldest president in the church’s history
7.Date & place of death
: He passed away Saturday night in Salt Lake City
8.Family
: He and his first wife, Dantzel White, had ten children. After Dantzel’s death in 2005, he married Wendy Watson in 2006.
He earned a
Ph.D. in Surgery
from the University of Minnesota in 1954, working on research related to cardiothoracic surgery
He was proficient (or at least conversant) in Mandarin Chinese, having learned Chinese in part because of his interest in global church work, and he built professional and church ties in China.