Arrington, Leonard James

Arrington, Leonard James
▪ 2000

      American historian whose many writings on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and service in the 1970s and '80s as church historian and then as director of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, led him to be considered the dean of Mormon historians; he was the author of 21 books, including the autobiographical Adventures of a Church Historian (1998), as well as hundreds of journal articles (b. July 2, 1917, Twin Falls, Idaho—d. Feb. 11, 1999, Salt Lake City, Utah).

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