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President Henry B. Eyring is the second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Henry Bennion Eyring was born on May 31, 1933 in New Jersey. Henry graduated with a degree in Physics before entering the United States Air Force. The Air Force sent him to New Mexico. When he arrived he was called as a district missionary in the area and served for two years. He then completed an MBA and PhD at Harvard. From there he decided to teach and found a position at Stanford. He met Kathleen Johnson in 1961 and they were married in July 1962 in the Logan Utah Temple. His father, Henry Eyring, Sr., was a professor of chemistry at Princeton. His mother was a graduate of the University of Utah and had pursued a doctoral degree. On April 1, 1995 Henry B. Eyring was ordained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and on October 6, 2007, he was sustained as second counselor in the First Presidency.
