USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -An early convert to Mormonism, Brigham Young succeeded founder Joseph Smith as the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1847; he led the church until his death in 1877.

Detailed explanation-2: -They had embarked on a treacherous thousand-mile journey, looking for a new place to settle the “Promised Land.” On July 24, 1847, an exhausted Brigham Young and his fellow members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints arrived in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Valley and called it home.

Detailed explanation-3: -(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is celebrating his 98th birthday in Salt Lake City on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. On April 14, 2022, he became the oldest president in church history.

Detailed explanation-4: -Joseph Smith was the founder and first president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He and five associates formally organized the Church at Fayette, New York, on 6 April 1830.

Detailed explanation-5: -After Joseph Smith, the founder and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormonism, and his brother, Hyrum, were murdered by an angry mob in an Illinois prison six weeks earlier, Elder Brigham Young is chosen to be the Church’s next leader.