Larry Turley Wimmer[1] (born December 8, 1935) is the Warren and Wilson Dusenberry University Professor at Brigham Young University (BYU).
[2] Wimmer holds a bachelor's degree from BYU with an MA and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Wimmer is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), for which he has served in various roles, including in a Sunday School presidency, as a High Priests group leader, as a ward executive secretary, as a Bishop, and in two Stake Presidencies.
He also had written several works on the Kirtland Safety Society including The Kirtland Economy Revisited with Marvin S. Hill and Clifton Keith Rooker (1937 - 2022).
This letter was written 12 years before Wimmer's LDS Church gave equal rights to black members of the LDS Church.