Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Gibsonite)

Walter Murray Gibson (March 6, 1822–1888) was an American adventurer and a government minister in the Hawaiian Kingdom prior to the kingdom's 1887 constitution.Gibson was from the southern United States. He was the captain of a ship and became involved in gunrunning in the Caribbean. Later, he was jailed in the East Indies by the Dutch on charges of fomenting rebellion, but managed to escape from his prison in Java (island). In 1859 he went to Utah Territory and joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, persuading church president Brigham Young to allow him to establish a Mormon colony in the Pacific.
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