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"The Council of Fifty" (also known as "the Living Constitution", "the Kingdom of God", or its name by revelation, "The Kingdom of God and His Laws with the Keys and Power thereof, and Judgment in the Hands of His Servants, Ahman Christ") [1] was a Latter Day Saint organization established by Joseph Smith in 1844 to symbolize and represent a future theocratic or theodemocratic "Kingdom of God ...
One of only three members of the Council who was not a member of the Latter Day Saint movement. [7] [8] After his expulsion from the Quorum, he returned to Utah in the 1850s and demonstrated an invention of "liquid fireworks" to the Council of fifty. [9] Reynolds Cahoon: April 30, 1790: April 29, 1861: March 10, 1844: April 29, 1861
He was also a member of the Kirtland High Council. [1] Cahoon again served as a missionary in 1833, this time traveling to Warsaw, New York, to preach alongside David W. Patten. [2] In 1834, Joseph Smith named Cahoon's newborn son "Mahonri Moriancumer Cahoon," explaining that the name was the name of the Brother of Jared, a figure in the Book ...
Benjamin Franklin Johnson (July 28, 1818 – November 18, 1905) [1] was an early member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a member of the Council of Fifty, and a private secretary to Joseph Smith.
[4] The third leg of the government, the Council of Friends, would act as advisors to both the Council of Fifty, and the priesthood body of the church. All three bodies were to be composed of righteous men. The Melchizedek priesthood authority would yield veto power over the Council of Fifty, with ultimate power held by a single anointed ...
Once formed, the Council of Fifty had little actual power and was more symbolic of preparation for God's future kingdom than a functioning political body. [18] The town of Nauvoo, where Smith organized the Council, was governed according to a corporate charter received from the state of Illinois in 1841.
The latter effort eventually became History of the Church. [2] W. W. Phelps, ca. 1850–1860. Phelps was endowed on December 9, 1843 [25] and received his "second anointing" on February 2, 1844, promising him exaltation. [26] He was also made a member of the Council of Fifty [27] and the Nauvoo City Council. [4]
Member of the Council of Fifty, brother of Mary Fielding, the second wife of Hyrum Smith, and an uncle of Joseph F. Smith, the sixth president of the church. Hannah Greenwood Fielding: Wife of Joseph Fielding Olive Grey Frost: Plural wife of Joseph Smith: John P. Greene: Member of the Council of Fifty and the chief of police in Nauvoo, Illinois in