Before Joseph Smith died he was going to run for president................?

Question

did he run against abraham lincoln? i heard it somewhere...

well he announced that he would and then died

Answer 1

www.wikipedia.com...you should find your answer there.

Answer 2

Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860. Joseph Smith wanted to become president in 1845 after the 1844 election. One of the Mormons' apostles had actually prochesied that he would become president, but since he never did, that prophesy isn't published very often anymore.

Because of his thirty-plus wives (24 of them legal) and the penalty oaths in his temples, people were VERY scared about him becoming President. When he ordered that a printing press in his city be destroyed because it had exposed conduct of his that was against the Church's doctrine at the time, people saw their constitutional liberties beginning to fly out the window.

Joseph Smith was assassinated. It was an unfortunate tragedy, but it prevented our God-given Republic from being transformed into a theocratic monarchy.

EDIT: bcpmt has some bogus information, unfortunately. Joseph Smith died in June of 1844, more than 30 years before the 1876 election. He might be thinking of Brigham Young; I think he wanted to run for president too. A different Mormon apostle prophesied that he would become president.

Answer 3

No he did not. He WOULD have run in 1844, but he was shot and killed at Carthidge Jail on June 27th. Had he have run he would have lost to James K. Polk. There is no serious historian, including me, that believes he had any chance to win. And keep in mind I recognize the name Thomas S. Monson and I don't even think he could have won.


PS--BCPTM the poster after me is totally confused. She is confusing Joseph Smith with Brigham Young. She is totally unaware that Joseph Smith died in 1844, yet she has Smith dying ten years after Lincoln in 1861. Her answer needs some serious revision.

Answer 4

Joseph Smith, the Founder of the Mormons, was assassinated as was his brother, Brigham Young went on to guide most of his followers to Salt Lake city.

Answer 5

~Joseph Smith had initiated efforts to formulate a campaign strategy to consider a possible foray into politics in the 1876 Democratic primary against Rutherford B. Hayes founded on both his religious beliefs and his opposition to the then prevalent Republican reconstruction policies. Fourteen of Smith's 23 wives opposed his foray into the national political scene and 12 of the 14 wives in opposition were staunch supporters of Samuel Tilden. Smith was more interested in keeping peace under his own roof (and pieces in his own bed) and withdrew his candidacy at the last minute at the national convention at Phuxuazhol Falls, New Hampshire on March 12, 1877. Lincoln had died more than a decade before Smith so what you have heard is clearly erroneous and although Smith did intend to run for president, and although his supporters refused to vote in the 1876 elections because of his withdraw, Samuel Tilden won the popular vote and Rutherford B.Hayes was elected president by electoral vote and manipulation of the Electoral College in congress. In a sense, the failed Mormon presidential campaign was the forerunner of the bogus election of Georgie the Younger some 130 years later. Hayes did agree to end reconstruction in exchange for Smith's pledge to turn his delegates over to Hayes at the convention and to establish Zion Canyon as a national park. Smith, in return, received title, in fee simple absolute, to all estuaries of the Great Salt Lake in perpetuity, holdings which were subsequently exchanged with the federal government in 1972, upon which new lands in Kensington, MD, the Mormons have subsequently built their national shrine.

Answer 6

He was killed before he had a chance to run for President.

Answer 7

He did not run at all.