Donald Q. Cannon
Donald Quayle Cannon is a retired professor at Brigham Young University who specializes in Latter-day Saint history, particularly early Latter-day Saint history and international Latter-day Saint history.
As a young man, Cannon was a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Germany. Cannon earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Utah. Cannon holds a Ph.D. from Clark University. In the late 1960s, he taught at the University of Southern Maine.
In the LDS Church he has served as a bishop and branch president.
Among other works, Cannon was one of the editors of the Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History and of the Historical Atlas of Mormonism. He has also been an editor for works in the Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint History series.
Works
- Donald Q. Cannon, Larry E. Dahl, and John W. Welch, Ensign, January 1989, p. 27
- The Nauvoo Legion in Illinois: A History of the Mormon Militia, 1841-1846 with Richard E. Bennett and Susan Easton Black.Mapping Mormonism: An Atlas of Latter-day Saint History with Brandon S. Plewe and S. Kent Brown and Richard H. Jackson