Brigham Young

Short Name: Brigham Young
Full Name: Young, Brigham, 1801-1877
Birth Year: 1801
Death Year: 1877

Brigham Young (1801-1877) was a Mormon ecclesiastical leader and politician in Utah. |b Brigham Young was born on June 1, 1801 in Witingham, Vermont. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1832, and moved to Kirtland, Ohio. He followed the migration of the church from Ohio to Missouri to Nauvoo, Illinois. In February 1846 he led the Mormon exodus to the West, and was sustained as the second president of the Church on December 27, 1847. Arriving in Utah he settled in Salt Lake City, and in 1849 was appointed as governor of Utah Territory. Young passed away on August 29, 1877 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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