Joseph Smith secretly practiced polygamy long before receiving sealing authority in 1836. Historian Richard Bushman suggests Joseph was a polygamist by 1835, with his illegal marriage to Fanny Alger in 1833. His wife, Emma, discovered the affair when she caught them in a barn, yet Joseph publicly denied polygamy, even declaring in 1844 that he had only one wife. His secrecy led to the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor, which exposed his actions, triggering the events that led to his death in C
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Joseph Smith secretly practiced polygamy long before receiving sealing authority in 1836. Historian Richard Bushman suggests Joseph was a polygamist by 1835, with his illegal marriage to Fanny Alger in 1833. His wife, Emma, discovered the affair when she caught them in a barn, yet Joseph publicly denied polygamy, even declaring in 1844 that he had only one wife. His secrecy led to the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor, which exposed his actions, triggering the events that led to his death in C
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