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Who was the founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints?

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Joseph Smith started the Mormon religion and thus the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. But, when he was killed in 1844, Brigham Young moved the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake Valley.
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