Nephi Jensen

Nephi United States Centennial Jensen (born February 16, 1876 in Salt Lake City , Utah Territory , † September 2, 1955 ) was an American lawyer, politician, and missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Life

Nephi Jensen was born in 1876 to Danish immigrants in Salt Lake City in what is now Utah . He attended public schools and from 1895 to 1896 the L. D. S. College in Salt Lake City. In early 1898 he served as a missionary in the Southern States Mission and was deployed in Florida from February 1898 . After more than two years, he returned to Utah, where he arrived in Salt Lake City on July 3, 1900. Jensen was now working as a school teacher in Arizona . There he met his future wife, whom he married on April 9, 1902. After the marriage, Jensen returned to Utah with his wife and continued to teach. In 1903 his son was born. Around 1906 Jensen was studying at the University of Utah . Soon after, he was admitted to the bar. In 1908 he studied at the College of Law in Chattanooga . After graduating, he returned to Salt Lake City and served as an assistant attorney in Salt Lake County from 1911 to 1913 . He also worked for the law firm Marks & Jensen . In 1919 he was named mission president of his church's newly formed Canadian Mission. After returning to Utah, Jensen began practicing law again in Salt Lake City. In 1928 he gave up and became county judge for Salt Lake County. He retired five years later.

Jensen was a Republican in the Utah House of Representatives from 1907 to 1909 .

Web links

• Article on Nephi Jensen's missionary work on the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oliver R. Smith, Dorothy Heward Williams: The Family of Jesse Nathaniel Smith, 1834-1906 (1978)
2. ^ Provo Daily Herald , September 4, 1955
3. ↑ The Strangest Names in American Political History: Nephi United States Centennial Jensen (1876-1955)