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Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs. Missouri Executive Order 44 (known as the Mormon Extermination Order) was a state executive order issued by Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs on October 27, 1838, in response to the Battle of Crooked River.
In the wake of the 1838 Mormon War, which saw armed conflict between Missouri State Guard and a Mormon militia, Governor Boggs issued Missouri Executive Order 44, known by Mormons as the "Extermination Order", branding Mormons "enemies [who] must be exterminated or driven from the state if necessary for the public peace".
The 1838 Mormon War, also known as the Missouri Mormon War, was a conflict between Mormons (Latter Day Saints) and other residents of northwestern Missouri from August 6, to November 1, 1838. Founded in upstate New York in 1830, the Latter Day Saint movement rapidly expanded in Missouri through organized migration.
Lilburn Williams Boggs (December 14, 1796 – March 14, 1860) [1] was the sixth Governor of Missouri, from 1836 to 1840.He is now most widely remembered for his interactions with Joseph Smith and Porter Rockwell, and Missouri Executive Order 44, known by Mormons as the "Extermination Order", issued in response to the ongoing conflict between church members and other settlers of Missouri.
In 1838, Lilburn W. Boggs issued the Extermination Order to drive Mormons from the state, and for a time there was no organized Church presence here. Later in the 1840s, members of the Church, both immigrants from Britain and migrants from Nauvoo, Illinois moved to St. Louis, Missouri and a branch was organized there in 1844.
With Missouri man in execution chamber, spiritual adviser tried to show ‘he was loved’ Katie Moore. April 11, 2024 at 4:00 AM. Monday, 27 hours until execution.
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The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday set a Sept. 24 execution date for Marcellus Williams, even as the inmate awaits a court hearing on his claim that he was not involved in the murder that ...