John E. Fowler

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John E. Fowler was a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in the Second Quorum of the Seventy from 1992 to 1997. He also served as a high councilor, stake presidency counselor, stake president, and Regional Representative. He taught early morning Seminary and Institute at Tulane University. He presided over the Georgia Atlanta Mission. As a young man he served in the Southern Australian Mission. In 2014, he became the director of the Washington D.C. Temple Visitors' Center.

Fowler was born on November 10, 1944, in Redding, California, and graduated from high school in Denver, Colorado. He earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Brigham Young University. He worked as a CPA for over twenty years. In 1997 he was appointed by Governor Mike Leavitt as Utah’s Olympic coordinator to look out for Utah’s interests in the planning of the 2002 Winter Games. After he stepped down from that position, he became the CFO for a tech company in Orem, Utah.

He and his wife, Marie, are the parents of six children.