I mean, the list of prominent Church leaders using middle initials is almost infinite. Think, for example, of such Latter-day Saint luminaries as General Ulysses S. Grant, General Robert E. Lee, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Warren G. Harding, Herbert W. Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, General George A. Patton, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Edward M. Kennedy, William F. Buckley Jr., Gerald R. Ford, George H. W. Bush (two for the price of one!), George W. Bush, Donald J. Trump, John G. Roberts Jr., Samuel A. Alito Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch, and Brett M. Kavanaugh.
Think, too, of the current all-LDS Joint Chiefs of Staff: General Charles Q. Brown Jr., Admiral Christopher W. Grady, General Randy A. George, General Eric M. Smith, Admiral Lisa M. Franchetti, General David W. Allvin, and General Daniel R. Hokanson. The only outlier is General B. Chance Saltzman, who probably just confused his middle initial with his first name.
Curiously, by contrast — and despite the fact that Latter-day Saint leaders are commonly regarded in some critical circles as simply aping the culture of corporate America — not a single one of the CEOs of Fortune’s Top Ten uses a middle initial.