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A religious innovator within the Mormon tradition, Ross Wesley LeBaron (1914-1996) organized The Church of the First-Born (sic) in 1955. LeBaron saw his small organization as being the Church of God the Father, while recognizing the priesthood authority of mainstream LDS Church and recognizing the various groups in the Mormon Fundamentalist movement as branches of …