(Brigham Young) President Brigham Young led the pioneer vanguard to the Salt Lake Valley and directed colonizing efforts in more than two hundred settlements. He was appointed governor of the Provisional State of Deseret (1849) by the provisional legislature, organized the "Perpetual Emigration Fund" (1849), established the Deseret News, with Willard Richards as editor (1850), and was appointed governor of Utah Territory by President Millard Fillmore (1850).
[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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