{"id":7117,"date":"2009-02-16T10:51:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T15:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=7117"},"modified":"2009-07-26T18:35:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T23:35:48","slug":"whos-the-most-important-non-mormon-in-lds-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/whos-the-most-important-non-mormon-in-lds-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s the Most Important Non-Mormon in LDS History?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bloggernacle has been awash lately in awards:  <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/2008-mormon-of-the-year-romney\/\">Mormon of the Year<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/category\/features\/mormon-of-the-year-features\/\">Mormon of the Year, 1950-present<\/a>, and the Boggs-Doniphan Award.  This last one asked for the most influential non-Mormon on Mormonism within the last year, for either good or ill, named about Missouri&#8217;s Governor Lilburn Boggs who infamously issued an Extermination Order against the Mormons in 1838 and for Alexander Doniphan, a Missouri militia leader who refused to execute Joseph Smith and other church leaders during the same conflict.<\/p>\n<p>In that same spirit, my question is:  Which outsider has most influenced Latter-day Saint history, either positively or negatively?  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberty-Downtrodden-Romantic-Reformer-Western\/dp\/0300136102\">My vote<\/a>, predictably, goes to Thomas L. Kane.  But I could be wrong.  Who would be on your list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bloggernacle has been awash lately in awards: Mormon of the Year, Mormon of the Year, 1950-present, and the Boggs-Doniphan Award. This last one asked for the most influential non-Mormon on Mormonism within the last year, for either good or ill, named about Missouri&#8217;s Governor Lilburn Boggs who infamously issued an Extermination Order against the Mormons in 1838 and for Alexander Doniphan, a Missouri militia leader who refused to execute Joseph Smith and other church leaders during the same conflict. In that same spirit, my question is: Which outsider has most influenced Latter-day Saint history, either positively or negatively?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1058],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-bloggers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9035,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions\/9035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}