Howard L. Biddulph was a professor at both Brigham Young University and the University of Victoria. He was a political scientist who focused on the government of the Soviet Union.
Biddulph received his Ph.D. from Indiana University where he wrote his dissertation on "Karl Marx's Early Thought in the Soviet Union". Biddulph began his academic career as a professor at Rutgers University. He was chair of the political science department at the University of Victoria.
Biddulph was also the first president of the Victoria British Columbia Stake of the LDS Church and the first president of the Ukraine Kiev Mission, where he oversaw the opening of missionary work in the Ukraine.
Biddulph has also served as a bishop and Regional Representative of the Quorum of the Twelve.
Biddulph and his wife Colleen are the parents of five children.
Biddulph also wrote the book The Morning Breaks (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1996). Articles by Biddulph include the 1983 article "Local Interest Articulation at CPSU Congress", "Soviet Intellectual Dissent as a Political Counter Culture" in Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 3, p. 522-533, "Religious Liberty and the Ukrainian State: Nationalism Versus Equal Protection" in BYU Law Review, 1995 and "Religious Participation of Youth in the USSR" in Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 31, Issue 3 (July 1979) p. 417-433.