Pretender to the Throne? R.C. Evans and the Problem of Presidential Succession in the Reorganization

1997: Roger D. Launius, “Pretender to the Throne? R.C. Evans and the Problem of Presidential Succession in the Reorganization” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 30 No. 2 (1997): 47-65.

Born into a Canadian family living in St. Andrews, Ontario Province, on 20 October 1861 , Richard C. Evans rose to fame and power experienced by few other members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.