About Ezra Taft Benson
Ezra Taft Benson was an American farmer and government official who served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture under President Dwight D. Eisenhower and later led the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‑day Saints from 1985 until his death in 1994.
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