Item Detail
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9506
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3
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46
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English
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'Lawyers of Their Own to Defend Them':
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Journal of Mormon History
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Fall 1995
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21
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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84-125
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Franklin Snyder Richards (1849-1934) served for over fifty years as LDS Church general counsel. He served with distinction during the intense prosecution of the Church over the practice of polygamy. Although not a polygamist himself, Richards played a major role in defending the Church in the courts and shaping policy. The author argues that Richards may not have been a private supporter of polygamy and, in fact, may have urged Church leaders to renounce their support for plural marriage long before the Manifesto was issued. Richard's role in suffrage, Utah statehood, devising the legal structure of the Church, assisting to have Reed Smoot seated in the U.S. Senate, and his involvement in commercial law. The article concludes with a brief review of his personal and family life.
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A Ministry of Meetings : The Apostolic Diaries of Rudger Clawson
An Experiment in Progressive Legislation : The Granting of Woman Suffrage in Utah in 1870
A Stench in the Nostrils of Honest Men : Southern Democrats and the Edmunds Act of 1882
Brigham Young : American Moses
Building the City of God : Community and Cooperation among the Mormons
Cannon Family Historical Treasury
Church, State, and Politics : The Diaries of John Henry Smith
Cooperative Community in the North : Brigham City, Utah
Defender of the Faith : The B. H. Roberts Story
'Good Guys' vs. 'Good Guys' : Rudger Clawson, John Sharp, and Civil Disobedience in Nineteenth-Century Utah
In Their Own Behalf : The Politicization of Mormon Women and the 1870 Franchise
Joseph Smith And Legal Process : In the Wake of the Steamboat Nauvoo
Justice for All or for the 'Elect'? : The Utah County Probate Court, 1855-72
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904
Life of Franklin D. Richards : President of the Council of the Twelve Apostles Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Lorenzo Snow's Appellate Court Victory
Messages of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormons and Cowboys, Moonshiners and Klansman : Federal Law Enforcement in the South and West, 1870-1893
Of Sinners and Saints : Theodore Schroeder, Brigham Roberts, and Reed Smoot
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Prisoner for Conscience' Sake : The Life of George Reynolds
Prisoner for Polygamy : The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, 1884-87
Sisters in Spirit : Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Supporting Saints : Life Stories of Nineteenth-Century Mormons
The Autobiography of B. H. Roberts
The Avenues of Salt Lake City
The Council of Fifty and Its Members, 1844 to 1945
The Making of a Mormon Apostle : The Story of Rudger Clawson
The Mormon Church-State Confrontation in Nineteenth Century America
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Prosecutions Begin : Defining Cohabitation in 1885
'There is No Law in Georgia for Mormons' : The Joseph Standing Murder Case of 1879
The Settlement of the Brigham Young Estate, 1877-1879
The Unusual Jurisdiction of County Probate Courts in the Territory of Utah
Things in Heaven and Earth : The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
Under the Prophet in Utah : The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft
Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915
Woman's Place is in the Constitution : The Struggle for Equal Rights in Utah in 1895
Woman Suffrage in Territorial Utah
Women, Family, and Utopia : Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons
Women of Covenant : The Story of Relief Society
Women's Voices : An Untold History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900