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- John Cook Bennett (August 4, 1804 – August 5, 1867) was an American physician and briefly a ranking and influential leader of the Latter Day Saint movement, who acted as mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois, and Major-General of the Nauvoo Legion in the early 1840s.
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John Cook Bennett (August 4, 1804 – August 5, 1867) was an American physician and briefly a ranking and influential leader of the Latter Day Saint movement, who acted as mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois, and Major-General of the Nauvoo Legion in the early 1840s.
- Freemasonry, Religion, Military, and The Church of Jesus Christ
- Life in Nauvoo, Illinois
- John Cook Bennett’s Fall from Grace
- John Cook Bennett Betrays Joseph Smith and The Church of Jesus Christ
- Doctrine and Covenants 124:16-17 and John Cook Bennett
- John Cook Bennett’s Later Life
In 1808 Bennett moved to Marietta, Washington County, Ohio. In 1812 he moved back to his home state of Massachusetts, and then in 1822, he moved back to Marietta where he married Mary A. Baker on 9 January 1826. About 1827, he joined Pickaway Masonic Lodge in Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio. At first he was affiliated with the Methodist faith, b...
Bennett helped to draft and secure the Nauvoo Charter in the Illinois legislature in 1840, for which he “garnered praise for his lobbying efforts on behalf of the Mormons from the young Abraham Lincoln” . Greatly due to his efforts on behalf of the Mormons, and the long period of time he spent living in the Smith mansion in Nauvoo, Bennett was able...
Shortly after Bennett moved to Nauvoo in August 1840, Joseph Smith received a letter “from a person of respectable character” in Ohio who lived “in the vicinity where Bennett had lived” (“To the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and to All the Honorable Part of Community,” Times and Seasons, July 1, 1842, 839). The letter warned Joseph a...
After Bennett left Nauvoo in May 1842, he claimed he had been the target of an attempted assassination by Nauvoo Danites, who were disguised in drag. He soon became a bitter antagonist of Joseph Smith and the Latter Day Saint church, reportedly even vowing to drink the blood of Joseph Smith, Jr. In 1842, he wrote a scathing exposé of Joseph Smith, ...
In modern day scripture, recorded in Doctrine and Covenants 124:16-17 are these words: 1. Again, let my servant John C. Bennett help you in your labor in sending my word to the kings and people of the earth, and stand by you, even you my servant Joseph Smith, in the hour of affliction; and his reward shall not fail if he receive counsel. 1. And for...
Bennett has been accused of having a part in Smith's murder, but, as his biographer Andrew F. Smith states, “Based on the extant evidence, Bennett appears to have had no influence on the events that unfolded in Carthage during June 1844" Following the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Bennett returned briefly to the Mormon faith. He first joined w...
May 2, 1995 · The Rev. John C. Bennett, a theologian whose views on religion, politics and social policy influenced American thinking for decades, died on Thursday at a retirement community in Claremont, Calif.
This article examines his two-year path through Mormonism to explore which aspects of Joseph Smith's polygamy he described correctly or incorrectly, with particular attention to the controversial elements of Bennett’s claims and an analysis of Bennett’s actual closeness to Joseph Smith.
Mar 25, 2008 · John C. Bennett was a womanizer, engaged in spiritual wifery, for the purpose of gratifying his sexual passions. He become a bitter enemy of the truth and God’s church. Mormons look upon his life with sadness and wanting.
- Sharon Lindbloom
Feb 3, 2016 · Bennett was a medical doctor and allegedly performed secret abortions, even promising to abort the babies of his “spiritual wives” if they were to become pregnant.
May 4, 1995 · The Rev. John C. Bennett, ethicist and former president of Union Theological Seminary in New York whose views helped mold the nation’s conscience for half a century, has died. He was 92. Bennett...
