RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Emma Smith

1804 - 1879

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Emma Hale Smith Bidamon (July 10, 1804 – April 30, 1879) was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement and a prominent member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church) as well as the first wife of Joseph Smith, the movement's founder. In 1842, when the Ladies' Relief Society of Nauvoo was formed as a women's service organization, she was elected by its members as the organization's first president. After the killing of Joseph Smith, Emma remained in Nauvoo rather than following Brigham Young and the Mormon pioneers to the Utah Territory. Emma was supportive of Smith's teachings throughout her life with the exception of plural marriage and remained loyal to her son, Joseph Smith III, in his leadership of the RLDS Church. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emma Smith is the 2,796th most popular religious figure (up from 2,820th in 2019), the 7,579th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,272nd in 2019) and the 70th most popular American Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Emma Smith ranks 2,796 out of 3,187. Before her are Oliver of Paderborn, Hilda of Whitby, Mullah Krekar, Georg Sterzinsky, Tadevuš Kandrusievič, and Jānis Endzelīns. After her are Genesius of Rome, Francis Spellman, Giacomo Capuzzi, Giuseppe Merisi, Chandramukhi Basu, and Urbano Navarrete Cortés.

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Among people born in 1804, Emma Smith ranks 69. Before her are Julius Benedict, Johan Nicolai Madvig, Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, William Stokes, Alfred Moquin-Tandon, and Peder Balke. After her are Fruto Chamorro, William Barton Rogers, József Bajza, Jane Irwin Harrison, Charles Magill Conrad, and Alexander Keith Johnston. Among people deceased in 1879, Emma Smith ranks 57. Before her are Peter Michal Bohúň, Joseph Hooker, Edward Blore, László Paál, Peter Arnold Heise, and William Froude. After her are William Fothergill Cooke, Adelardo López de Ayala y Herrera, Juan Antonio Pezet, Epameinondas Deligeorgis, Jacob Abbott, and John Bell Hood.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Emma Smith ranks 7,581 out of 20,380. Before her are Bob Barker (1923), Diamanda Galás (1955), Harriet Bland (1915), Jessica Jaymes (1979), Robert B. Parker (1932), and William Dean Howells (1837). After her are Kristen Cloke (1968), Ottis Toole (1947), Jon McBride (1943), Gilbert Kaplan (1941), Henry Carr (1941), and Loren Acton (1936).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Emma Smith ranks 70. Before her are Yusuf Estes (1944), John Patrick Foley (1935), Milman Parry (1902), Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774), Donald Wuerl (1940), and Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919). After her are Francis Spellman (1889), Adoniram Judson (1788), Walter Breuning (1896), Mother Angelica (1923), Daniel DiNardo (1949), and Adam Maida (1930).

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