(John M. Bernhisel) A charter member of the Council of Fifty, Bernhisel helped Joseph Smith prepare his 1844 political treatise, "Views on Government." Later he was selected by the Council to help dispose of property in Nauvoo after the main body of Saints had left. In the Council appointed him to "treaty with Congress on behalf of Deseret." 1848
[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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