Merrill J. Bateman
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Merril Joseph Bateman (b. June 19, 1936) is a member of the Presidency of the Quorums of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was president of Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1 January 1996 until May 1, 2003 and the twelfth Presiding Bishop of the Church in 1994 and 1995. He has been a General Authority of the Church since 1992, when he was made a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy.
Born in Lehi, Utah, Bateman earned a bachelor's degree in economics at the University of Utah in 1960 and went on to receive his doctorate in that subject from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965.
Bateman's academic assignments included lecturer in economics at the University of Ghana, 1963; assistant professor of economics at the United States Air Force Academy, 1964-1967; associate professor of economics at BYU, 1967-1969; professor of economics at BYU, 1969-1971; and dean of the BYU Marriott School of Management, 1975-1979.
Bateman also headed his own consulting and capital management companies and was an executive with Mars, Inc. in England and the United States.
Bateman married Marilyn Scholes in 1959. They have seven children.
| Preceded by Rex E. Lee |
President of BYU 1996–2003 |
Succeeded by Cecil O. Samuelson |
| Preceded by Robert D. Hales |
Presiding Bishop 1994–1995 |
Succeeded by H. David Burton |
