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Name

Presided Over

Sources

Title

Swiss and German Mission

Abplanalp, William Walter Alexander

1882 September 16 – 1956 January 8

Achter, Herman

1902 September 18 – 1942 November 8

Acomb, Leland Irving

1886 September 28 – 1967 February 7

Adam, Gustav

1906 August 1 – 1983 December 30

Adams, George Albert, Jr.

1891 March 17 – 1969 December 26

Adams, Lawrence James

1886 October 10 – 1948 March 25

Adams, Ray Hardison

1902 October 17 – 1969 March 28

Adams, William Richards

1878 September 2 – 1927 April 22

Adamson, Lynden Stanford

1907 June 28 – 1996 August 1

Aebischer, Albert K

1899 April 11 – 1955 May 25

Aebischer, Charles L

1892 September 14 – 1966 April 25

Aebischer, Henry Keller

1901 June 8 – 1969 July 5

Aegerter, Friedrich

1849 December 26 – 1931 November 27

Aird, John Harold

1908 January 24 – 1966 September 12

Albisser, Emil Oscar

1894 August 7 – 1970 December 17

Alder, George Benson

1906 May 1 – 1974 November 11

Alder, Sidney Dunford

1882 December 9 – 1960 July 13

Alexander, Guy B

1918 May 31 – 2003 August 29

Alleman, George, Jr.

1881 November 5 – 1973 June 19

Allen, Levi Henson

1891 June 15 – 1962 April 24

Allen, Moore Lowry

1893 April 3 – 1952 August 2

Allen, Nephi Simeon Hardy

1918 August 25 – 2015 March 12

Allen, Robert Knight

1908 August 4 – 1976 April 22

Allenbach, Herman Martin

1900 April 4 – 1961 May 28

Alley, John Symonds, Jr.

1915 December 7 – 1944 September 16