President of The Twelve
With the death of LDS Church President Heber J. Grant, Richards became the second-most senior apostle in the church and thus the President of the Quorum of the Twelve on May 21, 1945, a position which he held until his death. He is the only person in the history of the LDS Church to have been both the Presiding Patriarch of the church and the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
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