Why did brigham young work as a politicains?

Answer 1

Brigham Young was the second prophet and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He had successfully led the migration of the church from Illinois to the Salt Lake Valley and quickly began to establish the church in the region.

Because of the persecutions the Saints had suffered and the seemingly callous disregard shown by officials of both state and federal levels of government, Brigham and the other leaders of the church determined to establish their local government more or less after the pattern established by Joseph Smith during their years in Nauvoo. This included establishing a well-organized plat system of development in Salt Lake City, a pattern which was followed by most of the later settlements throughout the new territory.

However, the government established by the Saints was more ecclesiastical than civil in the beginning. Brigham Young, as the senior Priesthood leader of the church, was its de facto political leader until the region became an official territory of the United States. It was for this reason that Millard Fillmore appointed Brigham Young as the first territorial governor of Utah.

He served in this position from early 1851 through about mid-1858 at which point a new governor was appointed to serve in his stead. From that time, Brigham Young limited himself to the affairs of the church over which he was still serving as president.