Douglas J. Martin

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Douglas James Martin (born 20 April 1927) is a leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in New Zealand and was a general authority of the LDS Church from 1987 to 1992. He was the first, and to date only, New Zealand resident to become a general authority of the LDS Church.

Martin was born in Hastings, New Zealand. He was introduced to the LDS Church by Amelia Wati Crawford, and he was baptised in 1951 at age 24. He was a missionary for the LDS Church from 1952 to 1954. In 1954, he and Crawford travelled to Hawaii and were married in the church's Laie Hawaii Temple.

Shortly after the Hamilton New Zealand Temple was completed in 1958, church president made Martin a sealer in the temple. From 1958 to 1962, he was the temple recorder.

Martin has also been a bishop, stake president, and stake patriarch in Hamilton. When he was asked to become a general authority of the church, Martin was a regional representative of the Twelve. He joined the First Quorum of the Seventy in 1987, and in April 1989 became one of the inaugural members of the Second Quorum of the Seventy. He was released as a general authority and from full-time ecclesiastical duties in October 1992. From 1992 to 1995, he was the president of the Hamilton New Zealand Temple.^[1]