“The most extraordinary LDS leader since Brigham Young”

The Salt Lake Tribune remembers President Hinckley: Gordon B. Hinckley: The most extraordinary LDS leader since Brigham Young.

Hinckley, who died Sunday at the age of 97, had many of Young’s gifts as a leader and a builder, though not Brother Brigham’s rough-hewn ways. Hinckley was famously at home in any company, from world leaders and presidents to the Mormons at home and abroad who both revered and admired him. He was a leader with vision, stamina, native wit and the intelligence to apply his many gifts to his calling as a religious leader, but also as the brilliant chief executive of an enormous and complex corporation.