J. Elliot Cameron

Who was J. Elliot Cameron?

J. Elliot Cameron was an American educator and a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Cameron was born in Panguitch, Utah to Benjamin Archie Cameron and Leonia Sargent. He served in the United States Army during World War II and became a specialist in hospital administration. He began teaching at Lincoln High School in Orem, Utah in 1948.

Cameron served as principal of Duchesne High School in 1949. From 1950 to 1953 he was principal of South Sevier High School. From 1953 to 1956 he was the superintendent of the Sevier School District.

Cameron attended the University of Utah, Utah State University, Southern Utah State College, and earned bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. In the fall of 1964 Cameron served on a committee with seven LDS Church general authorities that evaluated the idea of the church building more junior colleges. The so-called "Cameron Report" which the committee came out with recommended that no new church institutions of higher education be built, that no new programs be inaugurated but instead it advocated the establishment of primary and secondary schools for church members in areas where such schools were not easily available.