birth_date: 1928-11-07 00:00:00
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name: Richard G. Scott
about: Richard Gordon Scott was sustained an Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 1 October 1988. He was called as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy on 2 April 1977, and served as a member of the presidency of that quorum from 1 October 1983, until his present calling.He graduated from George Washington University as a mechanical engineer, served a full-time mission to Uruguay, and worked in the naval and land based fields of nuclear energy.Elder Scott lived most of his childhood in Washington, D.C. He married Jeanene Watkins on 16 July 1953 in the Manti Temple. She passed away 15 May 1995. They are the parents of seven children.