David B. Haight

David Bruce Haight ( born September 2, 1906 in Oakley, Idaho, † 31 July 2004) was an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints and was from 1976 until his death in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Life

Haight grew up as the son of Hector C. and Clara Tuttle Haight along with several siblings in Oakley, Idaho on. The Mormon pioneer Horton D. Haight was his grandfather. When he was nine years old, his father died. Haight attended Oakley High School and the Albion State Normal School in Idaho. Haight studied from 1925 to 1928 at the Utah State University in Logan. Haight has now worked in retail. Begun in Keith O'Brien department store in Salt Lake City, by his subsequent career brought in several states, most recently in Palo Alto, California, where he was Manager of 25 stores from Montgomery Ward. In 1943 he was drafted into U.S. Navy. After the end of World War II he was again working for Montgomery Ward. This time in Chicago, Illinois, where he was now responsible as a manager for 165 shops. In 1949 he returned to Palo Alto and founded his own retail business. A successful businessman, he was eventually elected mayor of the city and held that post from 1959 to 1963. When David O. McKay, the ninth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, appointed him to the mission president of the Mormon mission in Scotland, Haight resigned from his position as mayor back. Three and a half years later he returned to the United States and was active in the administration of Brigham Young University. Another three years later, he was appointed in April 1970 Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. This office he held until January 1976 when he was called by Spencer W. Kimball, the twelfth President of the Church, the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and thus a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Haight moved so that by the late Apostle Hugh B. Brown.

Haight was married since 1930. The marriage produced three children, two sons and a daughter were born. In August 1998 he received an honorary doctorate from Brigham Young University.