George Q. Cannon
Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and Utah Territory congressional delegate (1827-1901)
George Quayle Cannon (January 11, 1827 – April 12, 1901) was an early member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and served in the First Presidency under four successive presidents of the church: Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, and Lorenzo Snow. He was the church's chief political strategist, and was dubbed "the Mormon premier" and "the Mormon Richelieu" by the press. He was also a five-time Utah territorial delegate to the U.S. Congress.
Quotes
edit- These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator.
- In The Juvenile Instructor (July 15, 1891), p. 443, col. 2
- Cf. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, pt. 7, sts. 22–23
