Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was the first known U.S. presidential candidate to be assassinated. Smith was not on the national ballot, nor was he endorsed ...

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It's true that Joseph Smith announced a bid for the presidency in January 1844. A mob killed him in June of the same year when he was in custody at an Illinois jail. However … What's False Smith was ...

Smith was not on the national ballot, nor was he endorsed by either major political party at the time, the Whigs or the Democrats. A 2008 congressional report recording "Direct Assaults Against ...

This discovery sets young Joseph Smith on a path that would forever change American religious history. From his early days as a money-digger accused of deception to his evolution into a prophet, Holy ...

Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “Being Green in the Land of the Saints.” The Mormon faith began in 1820, when Joseph Smith, then 14 years old, had a vision of God and ...

Flight -- Part 1. "In Illinois we've found a safe retreat-- ". King Joseph ; Zion, Illinois ; Everybody hates the Mormons ; Polygamy and its discontents -- Part 2. "Oh! Illinois! thy soil has drank ...

The Friends of the Boyden Library's Spring Author Series, Plus One! continues on Thursday, March 19 with a talk by noted author and journalist Alex Beam in the Library's Community Meeting Room at 7 ...

The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal, Vol. 43, No. 1, 50th Anniversary (Spring/Summer 2023), pp. 185-204 (20 pages) Joseph Smith, Manuscript History of the Church, Book A–1, 10, Joseph ...