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Richard E. Turley Jr. Biography
Richard E. Turley Jr. is one of the most popular and richest American historian who was born on February 18, 1956 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Richard Eyring Turley Jr., born February 18, 1956, is an American genealogist and historian. He was previously an assistant church historian for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and the managing director of its Public Affairs Department.
Turley was named Managing Director for the Historical Department in 1989. In 1996, he became Managing director of the Family History Department. Turley was also responsible for the launch of familysearch.org while he was in charge of the family history department.
Watching the case unfold in the press and in books, Turley felt misconceptions lingered from the media frenzy. To tell the story from the perspectives of the murder victims and the LDS Church (which Turley believed had been misrepresented) he published Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case in 1992 through the University of Illinois Press. Though he wrote the book without church direction, his trusted position granted him church leaders’ support and access to interviews, diaries, journals, memoranda, and other records.
In the department, Turley managed several notable electronic projects. FamilySearch, a massive genealogical database website, was launched in 1999. Other records were also released on CD-ROM, including the Freedman’s Bank (of African-American records), the Mormon Immigration Index, European Vital Records Indexes, and 1880s censuses, including the 1881 British Census, which won the Besterman/McColvin Award from the Library Association of Great Britain. For these efforts, and restoring several LDS historic sites, Turley received the Historic Preservation Medal from the Daughters of the American Revolution in 2004.
Turley passed the Utah State Bar Examination and briefly practiced law before being hired by LDS Church in January 1986. To replace Earl Olson, he was appointed Assistant Managing Direct of the Historical Department.
| Name | Richard E. Turley Jr. |
| First Name | Richard |
| Last Name | Turley |
| Occupation | American Historian |
| Birthday | February 18 |
| Birth Year | 1956 |
| Place of Birth | Fort Worth |
| Home Town | Texas |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Shirley Turley |
| Children(s) | 6 |
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In 2000, the Family History and Church History departments merged into the Family and Church History Department, over which Turley remained as Managing Director.
Richard E. Turley Jr. Net Worth
Richard E. Turley Jr. is one of the richest American Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Richard E. Turley Jr.'s net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Turley met Shirley Swensen in high school, Salt Lake City, Utah. They would eventually marry in Salt Lake Temple, and they would have six children. Turley wanted to become a lawyer at his father’s insistence and an Institute of Religion teacher because of his personal interest in LDS Church History. Turley was an LDS missionary to Japan Tokyo Mission from 1975 to 1977.
Turley returned from Japan and studied at Brigham Young University as a Spencer W. Kimball Scholar. He received a B. A. in English in 1982. He was then editor of the J. Reuben Clark Law School’s law review at BYU and elected to the Order of the Coif. Turley was awarded the Hugh B. The Brown Barrister’s Award was given to the best classroom performance.
In 1992, Turley commented on how Mormon history can affect the faith of LDS Church members:
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | American historian |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
In 2002, BYU Press published Selected Collections From the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which Turley edited. On 74 DVDs, this released numerous important and rare early documents of the church, which some scholars and historians called “the most important event in modern Mormon publishing,” and “an achievement of such significance that no praise, no matter how effusive, seems sufficiently laudatory.”
In these roles, Turley oversaw the Church Archives, the Church History Library, and the Museum of Church History and Art, the Family History Library, the FamilySearch Center, the Granite Mountain Records Vault, and over 4,000 branch family history centers. These comprise one of the largest collections of Mormon history, western history, and genealogy in the world. As a person of authority in LDS history and past defender of the church in the Hofmann controversy, Turley later became one of three official LDS Church respondents to a popular 2003 book critical of Mormonism, Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer.
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| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
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In addition to the following, Turley contributed seven articles to the Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History (2000).
On March 12, 2008, the Family and Church History Department announced it was becoming two departments again: the Family History Department and the Church History Department. In addition, Turley became the Assistant Church Historian, an ecclesiastical position that was unfilled for over 25 years. Steven L. Olsen, the department’s Associate Managing Director, took Turley’s old position of Managing Director.
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Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Richard E. Turley Jr.. You may help us to build the dating records for Richard E. Turley Jr.!More changes came to the department after Marlin K. Jensen became Church Historian in 2005. The department again staffed professional researchers, the Joseph Smith Papers Project sharply expanded, and a new Church History Library was announced.
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Richard Ranked on the list of most popular American historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Richard E. Turley Jr. celebrates birthday on February 18 of every year.
For his contributions to public history while overseeing the church’s archives, records, museums, and historic sites, Turley was awarded the 2013 Herbert Feis Award from the American Historical Association.
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