Gordon B. Hinckley, president of the Mormon Church, died Sunday at the age of 97-years-old in Salt Lake City. His cause of death was due to old age. He had been serving as the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints since 1995.

Hinckley was ordained the 15th president of the Mormon Church in March 1995 after then-President Howard Hunter, 87, died from the effects of prostate cancer just nine months into his term, the shortest in church history. Church presidents serve until their deaths.

When Hinckley was ordained at age 84, Mormons hailed him as a man of vigor and good health. Because the church presidency falls to the longest-serving member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, most men have been elderly when they took the office.

Hinckley was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. Many give him credit for helping rid the Mormon stereotype of polygamy. He served as president of the church for thirteen years. He was the fifteenth president of the Latter-Day Saints.

Latter-Day Saints Presidents

1. Joseph Smith 1830-1844
2. Brigham Young 1847-1877
3. John Taylor 1880-1887
4. Wilford Woodruff 1887-1898
5. Lorenzo Snow 1898-1901
6. Joseph F. Smith 1901-1918
7. Heber J. Grant 1918-1945
8. George Albert Smith 1945-1951
9. David O. McKay 1951-1970
10. Joseph Fielding Smith 1970-1972
11. Harold B. Lee 1972-1973
12. Spencer W. Kimball 1973-1985
13. Ezra Taft Benson 1985-1994
14. Howard W. Hunter 1994-1995
15. Gordon B. Hinckley 1995-2008