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Joseph Smith, Jr. (December June was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement . When he was twenty-four, Smith published the Book of Mormon . By the time of his death fourteen years later, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religious culture that