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What position did Brigham Young hold in the LDS Church?

  • Second president

  • First president

  • Third president

  • Fourth president

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Brigham Young was the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He succeeded Joseph Smith, the church's founder, after Smith's death in 1844. Young led the church through a period of significant growth and expansion, including the westward migration of the Latter-day Saints to the Salt Lake Valley in Utah.
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