135 years ago today - Mar 3, 1887

Edmunds-Tucker Act disincorporates the LDS church, provides for confiscation of its assets and properties, dissolves the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company, disfranchises all Utah's women, and dissolves Utah's militia ("Nauvoo Legion").

[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]

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