Gordon A. Madsen
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Gordon A. Madsen is a former state legislator and assistant attorney general in Utah. He is currently working as a co-editor of the business and legal papers in the Joseph Smith Papers Project. Madsen is married to Carol Cornwall Madsen
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Madsen has B.S. and J.D. degrees from the University of Utah
. Early in his career he served as a district attorney and then assistant attorney general in Utah. He served in the latter position from 1959 to 1964. Since 1964 he has been a lawyer in private practice.
From 1969 to 1971 Madsen served as a member of the Utah House of Representatives
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Madsen in 1990 and 2004 published articles in BYU Studies
about trials involving Joseph Smith
. Madsen has also worked as an adjunct faculty member at Brigham Young University
's J. Reuben Clark Law School
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Madsen is a Latter-day Saint. In a 1996 presentation to the Mormon History Association
he presented evidence that he said demonstrated that William Law's accusations of fraud against Joseph Smith, Jr. were false.
Gordon and Carol Madsen are the parents of six children.
Carol Cornwall Madsen
Carol Cornwall Madsen is an emeritus professor of history at Brigham Young University where she was a research historian with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History. She also served as associate director of BYU's Women's Research Institute...
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Madsen has B.S. and J.D. degrees from the University of Utah
University of Utah
The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...
. Early in his career he served as a district attorney and then assistant attorney general in Utah. He served in the latter position from 1959 to 1964. Since 1964 he has been a lawyer in private practice.
From 1969 to 1971 Madsen served as a member of the Utah House of Representatives
Utah House of Representatives
The Utah House of Representatives is the lower house of the Utah State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Utah. The House is composed of 75 representatives elected from single member constituent districts. Each district contains an average population of 35,000 people...
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Madsen in 1990 and 2004 published articles in BYU Studies
BYU Studies
BYU Studies is a multidisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing articles on a broad array of topics related to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
about trials involving Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith was founder of what later became known as the Latter Day Saint movement or Mormons.Joseph Smith may also refer to:-Latter Day Saints:* Joseph Smith, Sr. , father of Joseph Smith...
. Madsen has also worked as an adjunct faculty member at Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...
's J. Reuben Clark Law School
J. Reuben Clark Law School
The J. Reuben Clark Law School is a professional graduate school located in Provo, Utah at Brigham Young University. Founded in 1973, the school is named after J. Reuben Clark, Jr.—former U.S. Ambassador, Undersecretary of State, and LDS Church General Authority—and its charter dean was former...
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Madsen is a Latter-day Saint. In a 1996 presentation to the Mormon History Association
Mormon History Association
The Mormon History Association is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the study and understanding of all aspects of Mormon history to promote understanding, scholarly research, and publication in the field...
he presented evidence that he said demonstrated that William Law's accusations of fraud against Joseph Smith, Jr. were false.
Gordon and Carol Madsen are the parents of six children.