Governor of Missouri
Lilburn W. Boggs
1796–1860
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Violence and the Mormon Conflict
Governor of Missouri
Boggs had lived in Independence and had supported the 1833 expulsion from Jackson County. On 27 October 1838, acting on exaggerated reports of the Crooked River fight and on Thomas Marsh's affidavit, he ordered that the Mormons "be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the State." The order was not rescinded until 1976.
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Boggs issues Missouri Executive Order 44hinge
Acting on reports of Crooked River and on Marsh's affidavit, Governor Boggs ordered General John B. Clark to hasten to Richmond: "The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the State, if necessary, for the publick good. Their outrages are beyond all description." Doniphan and other officers treated the extermination clause as illegal and disregarded it.
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Lilburn W. Boggs
The exact wording and the stated grounds of the extermination order, and that it was issued to General John B. Clark as a military order.
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