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Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith, American religious leader, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement (d. 1844)

Joseph Smith Jr. was an American religious leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. Publishing the Book of Mormon at the age of 24, Smith attracted tens of thousands of followers by the time of his death fourteen years later. The religion he founded is followed to the present day by millions of global adherents and several churches, the largest of which is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

23 December 1805

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