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How did BYU get its name?

Updated: 11/4/2022
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Brigham Young University is named for Brigham Young, the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He lead the Mormons to Utah. Education was always important to him, and he encouraged Mormons to get as much education as they could. He believed that there needed to be a university or an institution that gave a secular and religious knowledge to those in Utah, and it was Brigham Young who commissioned the start of the school.

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