Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and colonel (died 1887)

Alexander William Doniphan

American attorney, soldier and politician (1808–1887)

Alexander William Doniphan was a 19th-century American attorney, soldier and politician from Missouri who is best known today as the man who prevented the summary execution of Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, at the close of the 1838…