Missouri Executive Order 44
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Missouri Executive Order 44 was a state executive order issued by Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs on October 27, 1838, in the aftermath of the Battle of Crooked River—a clash between members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a unit of the state militia in northern Ray County during the 1838 Mormon War.
Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs
General John Bullock Clark, to whom Governor Boggs addressed the Order
Kit Bond, the governor who rescinded the Mormon Extermination Order
Lilburn Boggs
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Lilburn Williams Boggs was the sixth Governor of Missouri from 1836 to 1840. He is now most widely remembered for his interactions with Joseph Smith and Porter Rockwell, and Missouri Executive Order 44, known by Mormons as the "Extermination Order", issued in response to the ongoing conflict between church members and other settlers of Missouri. Boggs was also a key player in the Honey War of 1837.
Lilburn Boggs
Marker on the Mormon Walking Tour commemorating the spot where Boggs house was located. The marker is in a cleared patch of snow on the sidewalk (to the left of the blow up). The Independence Temple steeple can be seen in the trees at the top of the hill.