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   Joseph Smith himself was Nauvoo's second mayor, and Nauvoo also appointed him highest ranking officer of the Legion, a Lieutenant General, making him the highest ranking military officer in the United States and first Lieutenant General since George Washington.

2. www.britannica.com › biography › Joseph-SmithJoseph Smith | Biography & Facts | Britannica

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   Oct 25, 2024 · Joseph Smith, American prophet and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Smith published the Book of Mormon in 1830 and shortly thereafter organized a small church of his first followers. Learn more about the life, writings, and legacy of Joseph Smith.

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   Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. Publishing the Book of Mormon at the age of 24, Smith attracted tens of thousands of followers by the time of his death fourteen years later.

4. www.bbc.co.uk › mormon › historyBBC - Religions - Mormon: Joseph Smith

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   Oct 5, 2009 · With this priestly authority, Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Fayette, New York State on 6 April 1830. Joseph set about building the restored church,...

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6. rsc.byu.edu › firm-foundation › joseph-smith-powerJoseph Smith and Power - Religious Studies Center

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   The minutes of the September 26, 1830, meeting quietly recorded this revolutionary transformation: “Brother Joseph Smith jr. was appointed by the voice of the Conference to receive and write Revelations & Commandments for this Church.”

7. www.fairlatterdaysaints.org › answers › 18441844 Succession to Joseph Smith - FAIR

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   Almost immediately after Joseph Smith's death on June 27, 1844, conflict arose among local Church leaders and others about who would succeed Joseph Smith. Throughout July 1844 local leaders met together and with Emma Smith to discuss possible succession options.

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   How did Joseph Smith become a church leader?

   • When Joseph Smith organized the Church in April 1830, a revelation designated him “a seer, and Translator, and Prophet, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, an Elder of the Church.” 1 Accordingly, Church members sustained Joseph as first elder and Oliver Cowdery as second elder, the earliest titles for leaders of the Church.

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   How many members did Joseph Smith have?

   • Joseph and his brother Hyrum were shot on 27 June 1844 by a mob of 150 men while they were jail in Illinois on charges of riot and treason. During Joseph's life the Church grew from six to 26,000 members. The history of Joseph Smith, the 19th-century prophet and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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   What did Joseph Smith do in 1832?

   • This president would “be like unto Moses” and would “be a Seer, a revelator, a translator, and a prophet, having all the gifts of God which he bestoweth upon the head of the church.” 2 At a conference on January 25, 1832, Joseph Smith was appointed president of the high priesthood. 3

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   Did Joseph Smith have a presidency?

   • When Joseph Smith set up high councils in Kirtland, Ohio, and Clay County, Missouri, in 1834, each high council had a presidency. The presidency in Kirtland consisted of Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon, and Frederick G. Williams, the same members as the presidency of the high priesthood.

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   Who was Joseph Smith?

   • Joseph Smith was born on December 23, 1805, in Vermont, on the border between the villages of South Royalton and Sharon, to Lucy Mack Smith and her husband Joseph Smith Sr., a merchant and farmer. He was one of eleven children. At the age of seven, Smith had a bone infection and, after receiving surgery, used crutches for three years.

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   Did Joseph Smith go to Missouri?

   • On June 27, Reynolds and Wilson, with Smith in custody, crossed the Fox River from Dixon into Monmouth, where they were greeted by Nauvoo Legion scouts. Joseph Smith told his captors, “I am not going to Missouri this time. These are my boys!” They were joined that day by the large company of the Nauvoo Legion volunteers.

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   About six weeks after Joseph Smith’s appointment, he selected two men—Jesse Gause and Sidney Rigdon—as his counselors in “the ministry of the presidency of the high Priesthood.” 4 Gause continued as a counselor until December 1832, when he was excommunicated from the Church for unspecified reasons. 5 In January 1833, Frederick G ...