March 4, 1844
Joseph Smith proposed James Arlington Bennet as his vice-presidential running mate.
Political Events
May 5, 1844
Joseph Smith addressed a large company of friends at his home on the Saints' course of dealings with the national government.
May 17, 1844
Joseph Smith was nominated as a U.S. presidential candidate for the National Reform Party at the Illinois state convention.
June 10, 1844
The Nauvoo City Council passed an ordinance declaring the Nauvoo Expositor a public nuisance, and Joseph Smith, as mayor, agreed to have that newspaper destroyed.
June 18, 1844
Joseph Smith stood in full military uniform on the frame of a building and gave his final address to the Nauvoo Legion.
June 19, 1844
Joseph Smith met the Nauvoo Legion at the front of his home and gave orders to have a picket guard posted on all the roads leading out of the city, to have all the powder and lead in the city secured, and to have all the arms put into use.
June 20, 1844
Joseph Smith prepared for the defense of Nauvoo against the growing mob, wrote letters telling those on missions to come home immediately, and advised his brother Hyrum to take his family on the next steamboat to Cincinnati, Ohio.
June 22, 1844
Joseph Smith was visited by John C. Calhoun Jr. and his brother Patrick, sons of John C. Calhoun, a senator from South Carolina whom Joseph had met in Washington, D.C., in February 1840 and who was now a candidate for United States president.
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