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{{subpages}} {{Infobox Person | name = Joseph Smith, Jr. | portrait = Joseph Smith, Jr. (1843 photograph).jpg | other_names = | website = | birth_date = 23rd Dec 1805 | birth_place = Sharon, Vermont | death_date = 27th Jun 1844 | death_place = Carthage, Illinois | occupation = | title = | salary = | term = | predecessor = | successor = disputed | party = | boards = | religion = | relations = | footnotes = }} '''Joseph Smith, Jr.''' ([[December 23]], 1805 &ndash; [[June 27]], 1844) was an [[United States|American]] [[religion|religious]] leader who founded the [[Latter Day Saint movement]], <!--***NOTE TO EDITORS: Do not change this to read "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There are many factions besides the LDS Church that follow Smith's teachings. "Latter Day Saint movement" should stand as is. However, Latter Day Saint is not an active movement, but an ideology."*****--> a [[restorationism|restorationist]] movement giving rise to [[Mormonism]]. Smith's followers declared him to be the first [[end times|latter-day]] [[prophet]], whose mission was to restore the original [[Christianity|Christian church]], said to have been lost after an [[Great Apostasy|apostasy]]. This restoration included the establishment of the [[Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints)|Church of Christ]] and the publication of the ''[[Book of Mormon]]'' and other new scriptures in addition to the [[Bible]]. As a leader of his religion, he was also a political and military leader in the [[American West]]. Although Smith's early Christian [[Restorationism|restorationist]] teachings were similar in many ways to other movements of his time, Smith was, and remains, a controversial and polarizing figure within Christianity because of his religious and social innovations, and as a result of his large following, which has continued to grow to the present day. Adherents to [[religious denomination|denominations]] originating from Joseph Smith's teachings currently number between thirteen and fourteen million followers. [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] is the largest denomination with approximately 12.5 million members.<ref>[http://lds.org/newsroom/showrelease/0,15503,4028-1-23166,00.html ''Statistical Report 2005''], The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. See [http://www.cumorah.com/sources.html ''LDS Membership Indicators''] regarding membership counts compared to attendance.</ref> The second largest is the [[Community of Christ]], formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, with about 250,000 members. Other [[:Category:Latter Day Saint denominations|Latter Day Saint denominations]] have membership numbering from tens to the tens of thousands.<ref>Steven L. Shields, Divergent Paths of the Restoration: A History of the Latter Day Saint Movement, Los Angeles: 1990</ref>

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