January 29, 1844

Nauvoo, Illinois
Joseph Smith was nominated as a candidate for president of the United States.
Sources: 
History of the Church,  Joseph Smith, 6:187-88
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters,  Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch, 
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