Cowdery Young

His Excellency Cowdery H. Young
1st President of Deseret
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 December 2012
Sovereign	Sariah Thomson (2012–2016) Cowdery Young (2016–2017)
Preceded by	Office Established
2nd Sovereign of Deseret
In office 15 May 2016 – 1 June 2017
Preceded by	Sariah Thomson
Succeeded by	Office Abolished
Personal details
Born	15 May 1996 (1996-05-15) Wasatch County, Utah
Citizenship	Deseretan
Nationality	American
Residences	Preparation, Deseret

Cowdery H. Young (born 15 May 1996) is one of the founders of the Commonwealth of Deseret. Since December 23, 2012, he has acted as Deseret's president and head of government. Initially, he served at the leisure of the sovereign, Sariah Thomson, alias Queen Utahna; during the Reformation of 2016-17, however, Young himself assumed Thomson's position as head of state.