Quentin L. Cook

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English name = Quentin L. Cook
birth_name=Quentin LaMar Cook
birth_date=birth date and age|1940|09|08
birthplace=Logan, Utah
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president_who_called=Gordon B. Hinckley
apostledate=death date and age|2007|10|06|1940|09|08
ordination_reason=Death of James E. Faust; Henry B. Eyring added to First Presidency
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Quentin LaMar Cook (born September 8 1940) is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

Biographical background

Born in Logan, Utah, Cook is among three children of Bernice Kimball and J. Vernon Cook. He is a great-great grandson of LDS Church apostle Heber C. Kimball.

From 1960 to 1962, Cook served as an LDS Church missionary to England. After his return, he married his high school sweetheart, Mary Gaddie, in the Logan Utah Temple on November 30 1962. He graduated from Utah State University in 1963 with a bachelor's degree in political science and from Stanford Law School in 1966.

The Cooks moved to Hillsborough, California, where they had three children. Cook worked for 27 years as a corporate attorney, becoming a managing partner of Carr, McClellan, Ingersoll, Thompson and Horn in the San Francisco Bay area; for three years as president and chief executive officer of California Healthcare System (CHS); and then for some timeFact|date=October 2007 as vice chairman of Sutter Health System. His tenure at CHS was marked by controversy as he orchestrated the lease of the once-public Marin General Hospital; the lease resulted in the transfer of millions of dollars of public funds to CHS. [ [http://www.sfweekly.com/1998-01-21/news/sutter-s-empire-strikes-back/ "Sutter's Empire Strikes Back"] , "SF Weekly", 1998-01-21.] Cook also volunteered for 14 years as city attorney.

Church service

Within the LDS Church, Cook has served as a member of the presidency of the Pacifica Stake, San Francisco Stake, a regional representative, an area seventy in the North American West Area, and Executive Director of the Missionary Department during his service as a general authority.

Cook was called to the First Quorum of the Seventy on April 5 1998, and to the Presidency of the Seventy on August 1 2007.

Filling a vacancy created by Henry B. Eyring being called to be a member of the First Presidency, he was sustained to be a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on October 6 2007 . [" [http://www.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=48a7ce401e175110VgnVCM100000176f620aRCRD&vgnextchannel=9ae411154963d010VgnVCM1000004e94610aRCRD Church President Names New Leaders] ." "LDS Newsroom". October 6, 2007.] As a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, Cook is accepted by the church as a prophet, seer, and revelator.

Publications

* Cook, Quentin L., [http://lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.b12f9d18fae655bb69095bd3e44916a0/?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=1c7274536cf0c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 "Are You a Saint?"] , "Ensign", Nov. 2003, 95
* ——, [http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=11678 "Be a Missionary All Your Life"] , BYU Speeches, 2007-03-13
* ——, [http://lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.b12f9d18fae655bb69095bd3e44916a0/?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=3a8476e6ffe0c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 "Looking beyond the Mark"] ,” "Ensign", Mar. 2003, 40
* ——, [http://lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.b12f9d18fae655bb69095bd3e44916a0/?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=c2ecdbdcc370c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 "Rejoice!"] , "Ensign", Nov. 1996, 28

ee also

*Council on the Disposition of the Tithes

References

External links

* [http://www.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=88cb5dee63675110VgnVCM100000176f620aRCRD&vgnextchannel=67509c643826e010VgnVCM1000004e94610aRCRD LDS Church biography]
* [http://www.gapages.com/cookql1.htm Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: Quentin L. Cook]