Charles W. Dahlquist II

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Charles Winston Dahlquist II (born 1947) has been the general president of the Young Men organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2004. He is the twentieth head of the LDS Church's Young Men organization.

Born in Provo, Utah, to Charles Winston Dahlquist and Afton Ahlander, Dahlquist grew up in Boise, Idaho. He served as a missionary for the LDS Church in the Swiss Mission of the church in the 1960s and has been a stake president and the president of the Germany Hamburg Mission. Dahlquist has been involved in Scouting most of his life and is a recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award,[1] the highest honor the Boy Scouts of America can bestow on an adult for service to youth.

On April 3, 2004, LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley asked that Dahlquist become the general president of the church's Young Men auxiliary.[2] It was the first time since Neil D. Schaerrer was called to hold the same position in 1977 that a person who was not a general authority of the church had become the Young Men general president. Dahlquist asked Dean R. Burgess and Michael A. Neider to be his counselors in the Young Men general presidency.

Dahlquist married Zella B. Darley in the Salt Lake Temple on June 2, 1969; they have five daughters.

Dahlquist is an attorney and lives in Sandy, Utah.

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  1. ^ "Silver Buffalo Awards" (Sep 2007). Scouting: 37. 
  2. ^ “The Sustaining of Church Officers”, Ensign, May 2004, 24.

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General presidents of the Young Men organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Wells (1876–1880) • Woodruff (1880–1898) • Snow (1898–1901) • J.F. Smith (1901–1918) • Ivins (1918–1921) • G.A. Smith (1921–1935) • Bowen (1935–1937) • Morris (1937–1948) • Curtis (1948–1958) • Bentley (1958–1962) • G.C. Smith (1962–1969) • Eldredge (1969–1972) • Backman (1972–1974) • Schaerrer (1977–1979) • Backman (1979–1985) • Featherstone (1985–1990) • Goaslind (1990–1998) • Dellenbach (1998–2001) • Hammond (2001–2004) • Dahlquist (2004– )