Renamed in 1904 to the Central States Mission (used to be Southwestern States Mission). The newly renamed mission included Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Kansas. The headquarters were moved from St. Johns, Kansas to Independence, Missouri.
At the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition many missionaries from the mission represented the Church at a variety of meetings and exhibits.
Beginning in 1907, the mission published a periodical called the Liahona. Later that same year the magazine merged with the Southern States Mission magazine to become Liahona, The Elders' Journal.
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1904
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Occurred Circa 1904
David Edward Robertson Set Apart as Mission President
1904 April 1 – 1906 April 3
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Samuel Otis Bennion Called as Mission President
1906 October 1 – 1934 January 1
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Elias Smith Woodruff Arrived in the Field as Mission President
1934 January 15 – 1939 July 1
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Arrived in the Field
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John Fife Bowman Set Apart as Mission President
1939 June 7 – 1943
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Set Apart
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Thomas Cottam Romney Departed from Home as Mission President
1943 July 26 – 1946 October 8
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