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Gorder B. Hinckley at age 78

President Gordon B. Hinckley is the fifteenth and current Prophet and President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Mormon Church, as nonmembers know it. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1910. He attended the University of Utah where he received a journalism degree. Afterwards he served a mission to Great Britain. When he returned from his mission, Gordon B. Hinckley accepted a job with the Church's public relations department. In 1937, he married Marjorie Pay. They were married for 67 years before her death in 2004.