President Ezra Taft Benson I would like to meet President Ezra Taft Benson because he is the 13th president of the lds church of which i'm a member. I would love to meet him not only for religious reasons but also because he was the secretary of agriculture he was appointed to this position by President General Henry B. Eisenhower. I would want to meet him because of his patriotism, his love of his family, and his spiritual connection with our Father in Heaven.
According to https://history.lds.org he was “born in Whitney, Franklin County, Idaho, to George T. Benson and Sarah Dunkley. He was raised on a farm and when he was 13 his father went on a mission and he had to run the farm on his own. Graduated from Oneida Stake Academy, and went on a mission to Great Britain. Received master's degree from Iowa State University. Became executive secretary of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives in Washington, D.C. “…show more content… I am grateful for our Founding Fathers who were raised up with the courage to give their lives, with the unselfishness to give their fortunes and the vision to pledge their sacred honor in order to establish a new kind of government of their own choosing where men might be free. I am additionally grateful that these Founding Fathers had the faith and humility to accept the divine inspiration so necessary in setting forth the Constitution as the foundation for their new republic. The Lord said he raised up these founders and called them "wise men".” He repeatedly told the LDS church members to be politically active. He showed his patriotism by serving as the executive secretary of Agriculture for President Eisenhower. This took a lot of time and work but he did it to serve his
