"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...
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Anointed Quorum (category Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints))
Latter Day Saint movement portal Council of Fifty Council of Friends Quinn, D. Michael. Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power Salt Lake City: Signature Books...
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John D. Lee (category American leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
the Council of Fifty, a group of men who provided guidance in practical matters to the church, specifically concerning the move westward out of the established...
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In 1844, Joseph Smith, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, established the Council of Fifty, a Latter Day Saint organization...
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Theodemocracy (category History of the Latter Day Saint movement)
would consist of "many officers and branches... as there are now to that of the United States." It is known that the Council of Fifty, which Smith organized...
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Department 56 (category Ceramics manufacturers of the United States)
ncc56.com. National Council of Fifty Six Clubs. Retrieved June 16, 2017. "Sortable listing of all clubs". National Council of Fifty Six Clubs. Archived...
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W. W. Phelps (Mormon) (category American leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
by Smith to serve as assistant president of the church in Missouri and as a member of the Council of Fifty. After Smith's death, Phelps supported Brigham...
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Alpheus Cutler, a member of the Nauvoo High Council and of Joseph Smith's Council of Fifty. Cutler justified his establishment of an independent church organization...
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Succession crisis (Latter Day Saints) (category History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
called seventy-three men and boys to a "Grand Council," perhaps an adaptation of the Council of Fifty. Also at the conference, the new church organization...
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and Sofia. ECFR was founded in 2007 by Mark Leonard together with a council of fifty founding members, chaired by Martti Ahtisaari, Joschka Fischer, and...
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Quorum (Latter Day Saints) (category Organizational subdivisions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
numerous local quorums for each congregation. The Council of Fifty, or General Council, was not part of the church, but a quorum-like body designed as a forerunner...
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Brigham Young (category Presidents of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church))
would occur. In March 1844, Brigham Young was an inaugural member of the Council of Fifty, which later organized the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo. In 1844,...
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for Mormon dominance." The Council of Fifty (which originally had fifty-three members) included only three non-Mormons, two of whom were known counterfeiters...
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William Clayton (Latter Day Saint) (category Nauvoo, Illinois city council members)
Joseph Smith and became his clerk and scribe. He was a member of the Council of Fifty and Smith's private prayer circle. Clayton participated in plural...
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pseudo-historical account of early Church councils from 887. In 331, Constantine commissioned fifty Bibles for the use of the Bishop of Constantinople, but...
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Nauvoo Legion (redirect from Battle of Nauvoo)
names: authors list (link) The Joseph Smith Papers, p. 321, Volume 2. Council of Fifty, Minutes March 1844–January 1846 1 March–6 May 1845. p. 321, editorial...
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democratic system is set up with an Assembly of Ten Thousand and a Council of fifty. The tagus of Thessaly, Jason of Pherae, dies, after making Thessaly a powerful...
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The British decimal fifty pence coin (often shortened to 50p in writing and speech) is a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1⁄2 of one pound. Its obverse...
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Heber J. Grant (category Presidents of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church))
failure as a result of arteriosclerosis. As the final surviving member of the church's Council of Fifty, his death marked the formal end of the organization...
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ZCMI (category Defunct organizational subdivisions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
a vote from the Council of Fifty, an early organization in the LDS Church. The President of the store would often also be President of the LDS, with Harold...
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rightful heir of Joseph Smith Jr.'s mantle as leader of the early Latter Day Saints' Council of Fifty (via early Latter Day Saint Council of Fifty member Benjamin...
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Wilford Woodruff (category Utah city council members)
Agricultural and Manufacturing Society. As one of the church's apostles, he was also a member of the Council of Fifty. He took detailed notes on the King Follett...
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Alexander Badlam (category Members of the First Quorum of the Seventy (LDS Church))
of the Council of Fifty on March 11, 1844, but was dropped from the council on February 4, 1845. In 1847 and 1848, Badlam presided over the branch of...
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Alpheus Cutler (category People excommunicated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Cutler served on the Nauvoo High Council, and the Anointed Quorum; he was also named to Joseph Smith's Council of Fifty. Cutler received his endowment under...
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Ibn Tumart (section The Council of Ten)
Tumart in Mellala. There was also a wider consultative "Council of Fifty", composed of the sheikhs of the major Masmuda Berber tribes - the Hargha (Ibn Tumart's...
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The Fifty Bibles of Constantine are said to have been Bibles in the Greek language commissioned in 331 by Constantine I and prepared by Eusebius of Caesarea...
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Edmunds Act (redirect from Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act of 1882)
Angus M. Cannon — 1885 — a stake president, member of the Council of Fifty, and younger brother of apostle George Q. Cannon. Cannon was sentenced to six...
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believed by George D. Smith (Smith 1994) Quinn, D. Michael (1980). "The Council of Fifty and Its Members, 1844 to 1945" (PDF). BYU Studies. Provo, UT: Brigham...
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arm of the organization—the Council of Fifty—which was to work under the direction of the priesthood authority of the church. The Council of Fifty was...
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shipping executive John Pack (1809–1885), member of the Church of the Latter Day Saints' Council of Fifty Michael Pack (born 1954), American documentary...
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