Missouri Governor Issues Mormon Extermination Order
Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs signed Executive Order 44: 'The Mormons must be treated as enemies and must be exterminated or driven from the state.' He was responding to escalating violence between Mormon settlers and Missouri residents. Three days earlier, a Mormon militia had killed 18 Missourians at Haun's Mill. Now Boggs made genocide official state policy. Mormons fled to Illinois. Joseph Smith was murdered there six years later. The order stayed on Missouri's books until 1976.
October 27, 1838
188 years ago
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