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Thomas C. Sharp

Newspaper publisher

Died when: 75 years 196 days (906 months)
Star Sign: Libra

 

Thomas C. Sharp

Thomas Coke Sharp (September 25, 1818 – April 9, 1894) was a prominent opponent of Joseph Smith and the Latter Day Saints in Illinois in the 1840s.

Sharp promoted his anti-Mormon views largely through the Warsaw Signal newspaper, of which he was the owner, editor, and publisher.

Sharp was one of five defendants tried and acquitted of the murders of Smith and his brother Hyrum.


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