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About H. Burke Peterson
- Harold Burke Peterson (September 19, 1923 – April 14, 2013) was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1972 until his death.
- He was a counselor to the presiding bishop and a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy.
- He became an emeritus general authority in 1993. Peterson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and was raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where he became an Eagle Scout.
- Beginning in 1940, Peterson attended Phoenix College, and in 1942 he joined the United States Navy.
- He completed a civil engineering course of study at the University of Oklahoma and became a Seabee, working on projects in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II. After the war, he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona and taught at the Utah State Agricultural College while he earned his master's degree there.
- After graduating, he worked in Phoenix with the United States Department of Agriculture.
- In 1955, he and two other Latter-day Saints founded a civil engineering firm. In 1947 Peterson married Brookie Cardon in the Mesa Arizona Temple.
- They eventually had five daughters. Prior to his call as a general authority, Peterson served in the LDS Church as a bishop and stake president in Phoenix; then later as a regional representative for the Phoenix, Mesa, and Tempe regions.
- On 6 April 1972, Peterson was appointed as first counselor to Victor L.
- Brown, the church's presiding bishop.
- Peterson acted in this capacity until 1985, when Brown was succeeded by Robert D.
- Hales. When he was released from the presiding bishopric, Peterson became a member of the church's First Quorum of the Seventy.
- He served as president of the Jordan River Utah Temple 1985 to 1987.
- Peterson continued his responsibilities as a general authority until he was granted emeritus status in October 1993. Peterson died at his home in Bountiful, Utah, four months after his wife died.
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