Rudger Clawson

Death Clawson died from pneumonia at the age of 86 in Salt Lake City. He had served in the quorum for a total of 45 years. He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery.

Views on race

In 1903, the Quorum of the Twelve and First Presidency denied a temple sealing to a man with a black great-grandparent. Clawson recorded that the man was "tainted with negro blood". He later lamented in a meeting that the man's white father of "pure parentage" had brought a curse upon his posterity by marrying a woman with a black grandparent.