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Anti-Mormon Party (Illinois)

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printed a report that delegates had been elected to the "Anti-Mormon Convention" that was to be held on June 28. The meeting also resolved "hat it is expedient to hold a county convention, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the offices of School and County Commissioners, in opposition to
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for County Commissioner. Neither candidate was elected in the August 1841 elections. By 1844, the party was being referred to as the "Central Anti-Mormon Committee" of Hancock County; the committee was led by Sharp,
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by an armed mob and the majority of Latter Day Saints subsequently made it known that they intended on leaving Illinois. The five men who were tried and acquitted of murdering Smith—Sharp, Grover,
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The party continued its existence until it gradually died out after June 1844, when
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Index

Thomas C. Sharp
Ideology
Anti-Mormonism
Politics of Illinois
Elections
Illinois
anti-Mormonism
Hancock County
Joseph Smith
Nauvoo, Illinois
Nauvoo Legion
prophet
Latter Day Saint
Thomas C. Sharp
Warsaw Signal
Richard Wilton
Robert Miller
William N. Grover
Henry Stephens
Joseph Smith was killed
Mark Aldrich
Jacob C. Davis
Levi Williams
American Party (Utah)
Liberal Party (Utah)
Richard Lyman Bushman
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
"Anti-Mormon Meeting"
Warsaw Signal
"Anti-Mormon Nominations"

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