Jana Riess: Yes, LDS founder Joseph Smith practiced polygamy
“The evidence for Joseph’s polygamous sealings is pretty overwhelming,” says historian John Turner, who has penned a new biography of the religious leader.
Joseph Smith, top left, and some of his wives, later in life, clockwise from top middle: Emma Hale Smith; Eliza R. Snow; Martha McBride (Knight Smith Kimball); Marinda Nancy Johnson (Hyde Smith); and Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs (Smith Young).
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