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Dean C. Jessee

Biography

Dean C. Jessee is widely recognized as an authority on the life and writings of Joseph Smith. He holds a master's degree in Church History from Brigham Young University and is a research historian in the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History at BYU. He served for many years in the Church Historical Department, and has been president of the Mormon History Association. He is the editor of The Papers of Joseph Smith, volumes 1 and 2.

Also Known As

Dean Cornell Jessee

Religion

LDS

Connection to Mormonism

LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

Birth Date

1929

Birth Place

Springville, Utah

LDS Missions

Germany

Education

Master of Arts in LDS church history from the College of Religion at Brigham Young University (1959)

Career

LDS Seminary teacher, archivist, editor, historian, author

Gender

Male

Roles

Author, Editor

Language

English

10 Works by Dean C. Jessee

Title	Role	Year	Genre
To the Church in Quincy, Illinois	Editor		Letter
Letters of Brigham Young to His Sons	Editor	1974	Letter
The Kirtland Diary of Wilford Woodruff	Editor		Diary / Journal
The Prophet's Letters to His Sons, Part 1 and 2	Editor		Letter
The Writings of Brigham Young	Author		Criticism
The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith	Author	1984
The Papers of Joseph Smith - Vol. 1	Author	1989
The Papers of Joseph Smith - Vol. 2	Author	1992
The John Taylor Nauvoo Journal	Editor		Diary / Journal
[Review of] The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph	Author		Review