Commencement Ceremony Invitation

June 7–10, 1896

Special Event

The third UAC president, Joseph M. Tanner, replaced President Joshua H. Paul on July 1, 1896.

President Joseph M. Tanner (1896–1900)

Joseph M. Tanner was the third president of the Utah Agricultural College. He was born on March 26, 1859, in Payson, Utah. He was born into a Latter-day Saint family and served an LDS mission in Turkey. He served as the principal of Brigham Young College in Logan from 1887 to 1891, then studied law at Harvard Law School until 1894.

From 1896 to 1900, Tanner was the president of UAC, during which time some of the best and largest classes in the history of the Alumni Association were graduated. After his presidency, he became the second commissioner of church education for the LDS church and served under figures like Lorenzo Snow and Joseph F. Smith before they became prophets of the LDS church. He died in Lethbridge, Alberta, on August 19, 1927.