Brigham Young was an religious leader and politician. He was the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877. Young founded Salt Lake City and served as the first governor of the Utah Territory. Young also worked to establish the learning institutions which would later become the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. Young was a polygamist who had fifty-five wives and fathered fifty-seven children. Many of his wives were widows or elderly women for whom he merely cared or gave the protection of his name.
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