Mac Christensen is the founder of the Salt Lake City based clothing retailer "Mr. Mac". He also currently serves as the president of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Mormon Tabernacle Choir

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, sometimes colloquially referred to as MoTab, is a Grammy and Emmy Award winning, 360-member, all-volunteer choir. The choir is part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . However, the choir is completely self-funded, traveling and producing albums to...

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Biography

Before opening his own business, Christensen had a background with clothing retail at a large Salt Lake City department store. In 1964 he opened his first store in Bountiful, Utah

Bountiful, Utah

Bountiful is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 42,552, a three percent increase over the 2000 figure of 41,301...

, which emphasized Mormon missionary

Mormon missionary

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of the most active modern practitioners of missionary work, with over 52,000 full-time missionaries worldwide, as of the end of 2010...

 apparel.

Christensen and his wife Joan are the parents of eight children. Their son Steve Christensen, a Salt Lake City business man and document dealer, was murdered by document forger Mark Hofmann

Mark Hofmann

Mark William Hofmann is an American counterfeiter, forger and convicted murderer. Widely regarded as one of the most accomplished forgers in history, Hofmann is especially noted for his creation of documents related to the history of the Latter Day Saint movement...

 in 1985.

Church service

Prior to becoming president of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christensen was director of the Washington DC Temple Visitors Center. Christensen became president of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 2000.

Politics and community

Christensen served for eight years as a member of the Weber State University

Weber State University

Weber State University is a public university located in the city of Ogden in Weber County, Utah, USA. It was founded in 1889 and is a coeducational, publicly supported university offering professional, liberal arts and technical certificates, as well as associate, bachelor's and master's degrees...

 Board of Trustees.

In 2006, Christensen co-chaired Orrin Hatch

Orrin Hatch

Orrin Grant Hatch is the senior United States Senator for Utah and is a member of the Republican Party. Hatch served as the chairman or ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1993 to 2005...

's Senate re-election campaign with Stan Parish. In 2010 he co-chaired the Senate campaign

United States Senate election in Utah, 2010

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 of Democrat

Democratic Party (United States)

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 Sam Granato

Sam Granato

Samuel Frank "Sam" Granato is a small business owner and chairman of the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2010 United States Senate election in Utah.Granato was defeated by Mike Lee, his Republican opponent....

, his friend.

Sources

• Mormon Tabernacle Choir bio
• history of Mr. Mac
• LDS Church News May 23, 2009
• http://books.google.com/books?id=IqrDDrWR_X4C&pg=PA149&lpg=PA149&dq=Mac+Christensen&source=bl&ots=tZlxx6m4iD&sig=rKBN19jE-WlJ7rD0A2BoO9JIoEs&hl=en&ei=_3uqS6y0F4G88gay49y8Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBMQ6AEwATgo#v=onepage&q=Mac%20Christensen&f=falseRichard E. Turlye, Jr., Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hoffman Case (Champaign and Chicago: University of Illinois Press,1992) p. 149-150.]

External links

• Mr. Mac Websites, Christensen's business