As a tribute to his lifetime of service, President Ezra Taft Benson received 14 honorary degrees from American colleges and universities.
They are:
Honorary doctor of human letters degree from College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons in Los Angeles, Calif., June 15, 1951.
Honorary doctor of laws degree from University of Utah, June 9, 1953.
Honorary doctor of agriculture degree from Iowa State College (now Iowa State University), June 12, 1953.
Honorary doctor of agriculture degree from Michigan State College (now Michigan State University), Feb. 10, 1955.
Honorary doctor of public service degree from Brigham Young University, June 2, 1955.
Honorary doctor of laws degree from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, June 18, 1955.
Honorary doctor of science degree from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., Oct. 6, 1955.
Honorary doctor of laws degree from University of Maine, June 10, 1956.
Honorary doctor of laws degree from University of Hawaii, March 22, 1957.
Honorary doctor of laws degree from Utah State University, June 7, 1958.
Honorary doctor of laws degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, N.Y., Feb. 20, 1959.
Honorary doctor of science degree from University of Rhode Island, May 14, 1960.
Honorary doctor of laws degree from Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pa., May 30, 1960.
Honorary doctorate from Arizona University of Naturopathic and Preventative Medicine, Feb. 11, 1980.
