''The Prophet'' was a local
Latter Day Saint
The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the LDS movement, LDS restorationist movement, or Smith–Rigdon movement) is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian Restorationist movement founded by J ...
newspaper published in
New York City
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,
New York, United States. The first editor of the paper was
William Smith and the periodical was printed from 1844 to 1845.
The paper was likely founded as part of
Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was 24, Smith published the Book of Mormon. By the time of his death, 14 years later, he ...
's
presidential campaign
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. It resembled other contemporary Mormon newspapers, from which it often published excerpts. Other editors included George T. Leach,
Samuel Brannan
Samuel Brannan (March 2, 1819 – May 5, 1889) was an American settler, businessman, journalist, and prominent Mormon who founded the '' California Star'', the first newspaper in San Francisco, California. He is considered the first to publici ...
, A. E. Wright, and
Parley P. Pratt
Parley Parker Pratt Sr. (April 12, 1807 – May 13, 1857) was an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement whose writings became a significant early nineteenth-century exposition of the Latter Day Saint faith. Named in 1835 as one of the first ...
. In July 1845 the paper's format and name changed to become the ''New-York Messenger'', which lasted until the end of the year.
See also
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The Evening and the Morning Star
''The Evening and the Morning Star'' was an early Latter Day Saint movement newspaper published monthly in Independence, Missouri, from June 1832 to July 1833, and then in Kirtland, Ohio, from December 1833 to September 1834. Reprints of edited ...
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Messenger and Advocate''
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Elders' Journal
The ''Elders' Journal of the Church of Latter Day Saints'' (the name changed to ''Elders' Journal of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints'' with the third issue) was an early Latter Day Saint periodical edited by Don Carlos Smith, yo ...
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Millennial Star
''The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star'' (usually shortened to ''Millennial Star'') was the longest continuously published periodical of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and was printed in England from 1840 unti ...
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List of Latter Day Saint periodicals
This article lists periodicals published primarily about institutions, people, or issues of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Early periodicals
The following began publication before Joseph Smith's death on 27 June 1844, after which several follower ...
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Succession crisis (Latter Day Saints)
The succession crisis in the Latter Day Saint movement occurred after the death of Joseph Smith, the movement's founder, on June 27, 1844.
For roughly six months after Smith's death, several people competed to take over his role, the leading cont ...
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References
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External links
''The Prophet''(HTML) partial archive
''The Prophet''Full Scans
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Publications disestablished in 1845
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