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Joseph Smith 1844 presidential campaign

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any wise as President of the United States, or candidate for that office, if I and my friends could have had the privilege of enjoying our religious and civil rights as American citizens, even those rights which the Constitution guarantees unto all her citizens alike." On March 11, 1844, Smith organized the
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Motivations that have been cited for Smith's candidacy include wanting to give the Saints a candidate they could support in good conscience; avoiding a political party fiasco between the Whigs and Democrats in Illinois; publicizing the Latter Day Saint cause to help obtain redress for Church members'
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On January 29, 1844, Smith held a meeting in the mayor's office at Nauvoo with the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and others. It was unanimously decided that Smith would run for president on an independent platform. Smith remarked, "I would not have suffered my name to have been used by my friends on
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In his campaign platform, Smith proposed to gradually end slavery, to reduce the size of Congress, to re-establish a national bank, to annex Texas, California, and Oregon, to reform prisons, and to authorize the federal government to protect the liberties of Latter Day Saints and other minorities.
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to two members per million of population, believing that a smaller body would "do more business than the army that now occupy the halls of the national legislature." More generally, he warned, "No honest man can doubt for a moment but the glory of American liberty is on the wane" and exhorted the
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but then began to suspect that victory might be attainable. Smith wrote in his journal, "There is oratory enough in the church to carry me into the presidential chair on the first slide" and "When I look into the Eastern papers and see how popular I am, I am afraid I shall be president."
593:. Advise your legislators, when they make laws for larceny, burglary, or any felony, to make the penalty applicable to work upon roads, public works, or any place where the culprit can be taught more wisdom and more virtue, and become more enlightened." Smith advocated elimination of 216:, which was then the second most populous city in Illinois with 12,000 residents. Latter Day Saint leaders requested that adherents vote in a bloc behind candidates endorsed by church leaders. As a result, the city's Latter Day Saint residents held the balance of power between the 519:
Smith's platform was published in the pamphlet "Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States", which his electioneers distributed and presented in public and private meetings, and read to congregations of the church and the general public.
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Scholars have debated what Smith thought his chances of winning were. At the same time that Smith was running for president, he was also making plans to move the Saints from Nauvoo to Texas or Oregon, for the safety of them and their property. Historian
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that each elector cast at least one of his votes (for president and vice president) for a candidate who is not an inhabitant of the same state as himself, Smith wanted to choose a running mate who was not a resident of Illinois. New York educator
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are hospitable and noble. They will help to rid so free a country of every vestige of slavery, whenever they are assured of an equivalent for their property." Smith's compensated emancipation proposal was reportedly well received in Kentucky.
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people, "Curtail the officers of government in pay, number, and power". He argued, "More economy in the national and state governments would make less taxes among the people". Praising the vision of the "respected and venerable
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was invited to be Smith's running mate, but the invitation was withdrawn due to a misunderstanding regarding Bennet's supposed birth in Ireland, which would have made him ineligible for the presidency under the Constitution's
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would be owned by the federal government, and the bank's branches would be owned by their respective states. The officers and directors would be elected annually by the people. Smith proposed the adoption of a "judicious
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Smith called for a day when "the neighbor from any State or from any country, of whatever color, clime, or tongue, could rejoice when he put his foot on the sacred soil of freedom, and exclaim, The very name of
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McBride, Spencer W. (2020). "'Many Think This Is a Hoax': The Newspaper Response to Joseph Smith's 1844 Presidential Campaign", in Spencer W. McBride, Brent M. Rogers, and Keith A. Erekson,
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lost property in Missouri; and bringing the tenets of the church and the political ideas of its prophet to the attention of the nation. Another effect of the campaign was to protect the
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Many of the electioneers used the campaign as a proselytizing opportunity as well as a political mission, and therefore continued on their mission of preaching, baptizing, visiting
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Susan Sessions Rugh (2006). "Review: Junius and Joseph: Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet by Robert S. Wicks; Fred R. Foister".
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were the only two apostles left behind in Nauvoo. On the other hand, George R. Gayler notes that the absence of Mormon leaders such as Young,
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Although Smith warned, "Speculators will urge a national bank as a savior of credit and comfort," he also put forward his own proposal for a
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Smith advocated granting of power to the president to suppress mobs without waiting for a request from state governors (as required by
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Illinois, where the Latter Day Saint population was in a position to play a pivotal role in presidential politics, had been a
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stance that he had previously adopted, Smith proposed the abolition of slavery by the year 1850 through
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And when a neighboring realm petitioned to join the union of the sons of liberty, my voice would be
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Contingent Citizens: Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture
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funded with revenue from the sale of public lands, and with the savings from cutting the
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after Smith's death ended the campaign. They began referring to Smith as a martyr.
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was sent to Baltimore to observe and possibly lobby for the Smith candidacy at the
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Gayler, G. (1 April 1956). "The Mormons and Politics in Illinois: 1839–1844".
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in state elections. Smith also commanded a quasi-public military force, the
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were present at events surrounding the raid on the jail where Smith was
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Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
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of that year was scheduled for November 1 to December 4, but Smith was
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Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States
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Luke Perry, Christopher Cronin. "First a Catholic, Then a Mormon?".
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Matthew L Harris; Newell G. Bringhurst (15 November 2015).
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platform was the result of a collaboration between Smith,
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where they were traveling, they were out of reach of the
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The Latter Day Saints formed a new political party, the
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Mormons in American Politics: From Persecution to Power
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Smith advocated reforming the penal system by mostly
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agriculture, manufactures, navigation, and commerce.
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Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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Index


1844 United States presidential election
Joseph Smith
President
Church of Christ
Nauvoo, Illinois
Sidney Rigdon
First Presidency
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Reform Party
Nauvoo, Illinois
Willard Richards
John M. Bernhisel
W.W. Phelps
Lucian R. Foster
Super hanc petram aedificabo


Latter Day Saint movement
Joseph Smith
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
First Presidency
Sidney Rigdon
United States presidential election
killed
Carthage, Illinois
Nauvoo, Illinois
Democrats
Whigs

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