Joseph Smith was assassinated while running for President of the United States on June 27, 1844. It was first and foremost a political assassination orchestrated by newspaper editor Thomas Sharp and other politicians who felt threatened by Joseph Smith’s and the saints rising political influence in Hancock County, Illinois.
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Joseph Smith was assassinated in June of 1844 so never completed his campaign for the presidency. Thomas Sharp called for Joseph Smith’s life, Sharp was in the mob that ended Joseph Smith, and he later bragged about doing what had to be done. It’s impossible to know what would have happened if Joseph Smith had lived to see election day, but one source claimed that Joseph Smith’s views on government caught like wildfire and if he “did not get into the Presidential chair this election, he would be sure to the next time.”
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To learn about how the Presidential Campaign led to Joseph Smith’s martyrdom, listen to the Church History Matters podcast.
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