{{short description|American politician}} {{Other people|Joseph Cannon}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Joseph J. Cannon | honorific_suffix = | image = Joseph J. Cannon.jpg | image_size = | alt = Oval portrait photograph of Joseph J. Cannon | state_house = Utah | district = | prior_term = | term_start = 1909 | term_end = 1911 | predecessor = | successor = | birth_date = May 22, 1877 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1945|11|05| 1877|05|22}} | death_place = | party = | spouse = | partner = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Joseph Jenne Cannon''' (May 22, 1877 – November 5, 1945) was a [[Utah]] politician and newspaper editor and was a leader in [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church). He was a member of the prominent [[Cannon family|Cannon political family]].
==Biography== As a young man, Cannon served as a [[Mormon missionary|missionary]] for the LDS Church in [[Europe]]. He accompanied LDS Church [[Apostle (Latter Day Saints)|apostle]] [[Francis M. Lyman]] in offering prayers in [[St. Petersburg, Russia|St. Petersburg]] and [[Moscow]] which dedicated [[Russia]] for the preaching of [[Mormonism]] in August 1903.<ref>[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2003/11/news-of-the-church/to-every-nation-kindred-tongue-and-people "To Every Nation, Kindred, Tongue, and People,"] ''[[Ensign (LDS magazine)|Ensign]]'', November 2003, pp. 125–27.</ref> Lyman and Cannon also similarly dedicated [[Finland]] in 1903.
In the 1908 election, Cannon was elected as a member of the [[Utah House of Representatives]] from [[Salt Lake County]]. He served one term, from 1909 to 1911. Cannon was not formally associated with any political party.
From 1931 to 1934, Cannon was the editor of the ''[[Deseret News]]'', a [[Salt Lake City]] newspaper owned by the LDS Church. His tenure ended when the LDS Church asked him to become the [[Mission president|president]] of the church's British [[Mission (LDS Church)|Mission]]. Cannon served in this capacity for three years, until 1937.
Immediately following his return to Utah, Cannon was asked to become the first assistant to [[George Q. Morris]], the general superintendent of the church's [[Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association]]. Cannon served in this capacity until his death from [[pancreatic cancer]] in 1945.<ref>[http://images.archives.utah.gov/data/81448/2260787/2260787_0000026.jpg State of Utah Death Certificate] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718172745/http://images.archives.utah.gov/data/81448/2260787/2260787_0000026.jpg |date=July 18, 2011 }}.</ref>
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==References== *[[Andrew Jenson]], ''Encyclopedia History of the Church''{{full citation needed|date=September 2018}}
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