page_title: Orson F. Whitney
section_title: LDS Church service
hierarchical_section_title: Orson F. Whitney / LDS Church service
caption_attribution_description: English: Grave marker of Orson F. Whitney.
context_page_description: Orson Ferguson Whitney born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1906 until his death.
context_section_description: In 1905, two members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles resigned over a dispute regarding the 1890 Manifesto, which prohibited any further plural marriages within the church. John W. Taylor disagreed with the Manifesto entirely; Matthias F. Cowley felt that it should apply only to the United States. In February of the next year, Marriner W. Merrill died, which left three vacancies in the quorum.
  At a general conference of the church on April 8, 1906, Whitney was called as an apostle, along with George F. Richards and David O. McKay.
caption: Grave marker of Orson F. Whitney.
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