Robert K. Dellenbach

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Robert Kent Dellenbach (born 10 May 1937) was an American educational administrator and has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 1990. He was the eighteenth general president of the Young Men organization of the LDS Church from 1998 to 2001.

Dellenbach was born in Salt Lake City and raised in Clinton, Utah. After high school, he served as an LDS Church missionary in West Germany for 30 months. Upon returning to the United States, Dellenbach earned a degree from the University of Utah and an MBA degree from Brigham Young University. Dellenbach became a vice president with the University of Alaska Fairbanks and later became president of the University of Alaska Anchorage. He also worked for the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.

Prior to his call as a church general authority, Dellenbach was a bishop, stake president, and a Regional Representative of the Twelve Apostles in the church. He was the president of the Germany Dusseldorf and the Germany Munich Missions of the church. In 1990, he became a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy. In 1992, he was transferred to the First Quorum of the Seventy.

In 1998, Dellenbach succeeded Jack H. Goaslind as the general president of the Young Men organization. Dellenbach had twice been Goaslind's second counselor (1990–1991; 1997) and had twice been his first counselor (1991–1992; 1997–1998). He was released from this responsibility in 2001 and was succeeded by his own first counselor, F. Melvin Hammond.

In October 2007 Dellenbach was given general authority emeritus status.

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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– )