Ezra Taft Benson, the only Mormon apostle ever to serve in a U.S. Cabinet, was known as a forceful foe of communism and a dedicated disciple of conservatism.

Mormon Church President Ezra Taft Benson was remembered Saturday as a plain-spoken champion of freedom who loathed communism, defended the rights of farmers and inspired his people.

His name: Ezra Taft Benson. A Latter-day Saint apostle and onetime church president, Benson held political views that stretched further right than mainstream Republicans.

In “Watchman on the Tower: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right,” Matthew Harris, a professor of history at Colorado State University in Pueblo, sheds light on Benson’s ...

Someone like Ezra Taft Benson. On Feb. 12, at Wallace’s request, Benson, just finished with an apostolic assignment in Wisconsin, flew to Alabama for a clandestine rendezvous in the state mansion.

When Ezra Taft Benson was asked to become Secretary of Agriculture last fall, he told Dwight Eisenhower: “General, no salary in the world could persuade me to take the job.” Benson began to ...

EZRA TAFT BENSON, 53, farm marketing specialist, one of the twelve apostles of the Mormon Church.Family & Early Years: His great-grandfather, Ezra Taft Benson, was a Mormon apostle. His father, ...

In 1981, then-apostle Ezra Taft Benson rose to the pulpit during a General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and told women: “You were elected by God to be wives and ...