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Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
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Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
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Brigham Young University
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Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Phone:
+1 801-422-4636

Address:
Provo, Provo, UT

Brigham Young was an American religious leader, politician, and settler. He was the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877. He founded Salt Lake City and he served as the first governor of the Utah Territory. Young also led the foundings of the precursors to the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. Young had many nicknames, among the most popular being American Moses , because, like the biblical figure, Young led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, in an exodus through a desert, to what they saw as a promised land. Young was dubbed by his followers the Lion of the Lord for his bold personality and was also commonly called Brother Brigham by Latter-day Saints. Young was a polygamist, instituted a church ban against conferring the priesthood on men of black African descent, and participated in the Utah War.
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