Cleon Skousen

Willard Cleon Skousen was an American conservative author and faithbased political theorist who believed that the United States Constitution creates a christian theocracy. He was also a prolific popularizer among Latterday Saints of their theology. A notable anticommunist and supporter of the John Birch Society, Skousens works involved a wide range of subjects including the SixDay War, Mormon eschatology, New World Order conspiracies, and parenting. His most popular works are The 5,000 Year Leap and The Naked Communist. A book by Skousen on end times prophecy, The Cleansing of America, was published by Valor Publishing Group in 2010, four years after his death.

Skousen was born on a dryland farm in Raymond, Alberta, Canada, the second of nine children of Royal Pratt Skousen and Margarita Bentley Skousen, who were U.S. citizens. He lived in Canada until he was ten years old, then moved with his family to California where his father supervised the paving of some of the original Route 66. In 1926, Skousen went to the Mormon colony, Colonia Juarez, Mexico for two years to help his seriously ill grandmother. While there, he attended the Juarez Academy and was employed for a time as a race horse jockey. Skousen then returned to California, graduating from high school in 1930. At the age ofhe traveled to Great Britain as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints .

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