When BY took over??? I was reading my great ancestors account when he ran around with JS, Whirled, Kimble &u others and when he came to the valley with BY and noticed BY didn't become "prophet" until Dec 1847...

No prophet for those years between? Haven't finished reading but what gives?

P.s. my family has never spoke about my ancestors plural marriages. Funny how they conveniently only talk about his first wife and the one he married after his first wife died. Lame

he was only voted as President of the church.

http://www.xmission.com/~research/central/chorg1.htm
Joseph Smith
birth/death: 1805-1844
First Elder: 6 April 1830
1st church president: 25 January 1832
Person who ordained him: Sidney Rigdon (High Priest)

Brigham Young
birth/death: 1801-1877
Apostle: 14 February 1835
2nd church president in connection with the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (sustained): 7 October 1844
First Presidency organized: 5 December 1847
No ordination ceremony

John Taylor
birth/death: 1808-1887
Apostle: 19 December 1838
3rd church president (sustained): 10 October 1880
No ordination ceremony

Wilford Woodruff
birth/death: 1807-1898
Apostle: 26 April 1839
4th church president (sustained): 7 April 1889
No ordination ceremony

Lorenzo Snow is the first to be ordained by an Apostle..,although The Prophet already, JSjr needed only be ordained as President. David Whitmer contends that the President and Prophet should not have been the same person.

Joseph F. Smith
birth/death: 1838-1918
Apostle: 1 July 1866
6th church president: 17 October 1901
Person who ordained him: John Smith (Patriarch)

The rest of the Presidents have been ordained to date.

One school of thought I've encountered in the church says that JS was the only talk-face-to-face-with-God kind of prophet of the modern dispensation, but that since then "prophet" has really been only a job title. The "living prophets" are the ones who hold the keys to revelation, but they have "revelations" the same way any other Mormon might -- the good feelings about an idea they've prayed about.

Of course, another school of thought is that there are no such tings as prophets, so none of the church presidents have been one.

That's not what they've taught since JS. they taught the the prophet is god's mouthpiece on earth, remember?

So lame. And to think my ancestor was homies with all those guys! I think I heard he was on a statue in slc with those guys. Ew. Imma look it up. Lol. Maybe his writings will tell the truth.