George P. Lee, the first American Indian to serve as a general authority in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Wednesday at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo. He was 67 years old.
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George P. Lee once enjoyed such widespread respect as the first and only American Indian LDS general authority that many Mormons believed he someday might become an apostle or even higher.
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Elder Lee came to our stake when I was a youth. I was afraid of him. He was a pulpit pounder.
The last stake president I had before moving to Lethbridge was a pulpit pounder. It was awesome!