Ezra Taft Benson, head of the Mormon Church since 1985, died Monday at his home in Salt Lake City. Church officials said he had been hospitalized briefly last week for congestive heart failure. He was ...

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. Benson's most enduring religious legacy, ...

In Chicago’s ornate Civic Opera House one day last week, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson arose before 3,000 members of the American Farm Bureau Federation to talk about farm problems and ...

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, ...

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