Julian Whiting

Julian Everson Whiting (7 September 1912 - 3 October 2004) was a Latter Day Saint leader who served as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite) from 1974 to 1997.

During his tenure, the Cutlerites endured the second (and last, to date) schism in their history when Eugene O. Walton, a convert to the church, proclaimed himself to be the "One Mighty and Strong" in 1980.

[citation needed] After leaving school, Julian moved in 1933 to Independence, Missouri, where the church had relocated its headquarters five years before.

[citation needed] Julian Whiting succeeded to the Cutlerite presidency in 1974, upon the death of Rupert Fletcher.

Enthusiastically received at first by Whiting and the other members of the church, Walton shocked his new brethren in 1980 with his claim to be "The One Mighty and Strong" foretold by Joseph Smith in Doctrine and Covenants Section 85 (Utah edition).