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This article lists the presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The included persons have served as President of the Church and prophet, seer, and revelator of the LDS Church.
(February 7, 1815 – May 16, 1850). Though Mormon history and press indicate Beaman was not baptized until May 11, 1843, [30] [31] she had migrated with Mormons to Nauvoo in 1839 or 1840. [32] She has been called the "first plural wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith". [33] After Smith's death, Beaman remarried, becoming the ninth wife of Brigham ...
Modern biographers and scholars—Mormon and non-Mormon alike—agree that Smith was one of the most influential, charismatic, and innovative figures in American religious history. [170] In a 2015 compilation of the 100 Most Significant Americans of All Time, Smithsonian ranked Smith first in the category of religious figures. [ 171 ]
The following prophets (or in some cases, simply people who kept the record and passed it to future generations) are those mentioned in the plates of Nephi (1 Nephi through Omni). Lehi 1 , father of Laman 1 , Lemuel , Nephi 1 , Sam , Jacob 2 , Joseph 2 , and several daughters (c. 600 BC).
Eventual No. of wives: 27 Notes: Prophet and Presiding Priesthood Leader of the Latter Day Church of Christ, also known as the Davis County Cooperative Society, since August 25, 1987. Name: Ervil LeBaron: Born: February 22, 1925 Died: August 16, 1981 (aged 56) Date entered polygamy: c. 1944 Eventual No. of wives:
[1]: 59 A book published in 1887 gives brief biographical sketches of twenty-six wives (with pictures of twenty). [6] Of his fifty-six wives, twenty-one had never been married before; seventeen were widows; six were divorced; six had living husbands; and the marital status of six others is unknown. [1]
The Mormon doctrine of plural wives was officially announced by one of the Twelve Apostles, Orson Pratt, and church president Brigham Young in a special conference of the elders of the LDS Church assembled in the Salt Lake Tabernacle on 28 August 1852, and reprinted in the Deseret News Extra the following day. [2]
Emma Hale Smith Bidamon (July 10, 1804 – April 30, 1879) was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement and a prominent member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church) as well as the first wife of Joseph Smith, the movement's founder. [1]