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Albert Carrington (1813-01-08 – 1889-09-19) born in Royalton, Vermont, was an apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), ordained on July 3, 1870. He served in the Utah Territorial Legislature in 1869. He was excommunicated on November 7, 1885 for adultery and fornication, but was later rebaptized. Carrington was the tenth official Church Historian of the LDS Church between 1871 and 1874.
[edit] Published works
- Carrington, Albert (1947). Diary of Albert Carrington (Heart throbs of the West). Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Central Company. ISBN B0007JIRKY.
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- ^ Carrington's excommunication, the death of John Taylor and the reorganization of the First Presidency, and the death of Erastus Snow created three vacancies in the Quorum of the Twelve which were filled by the ordination of three new apostles.
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