---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1840 to 1841.
authors:
  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
editors:
  - Ebenezer Robinson
  - Don Carlos Smith
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
  - Taylor, John
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - newspaper
  - times-and-seasons
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
periodical: Times and Seasons
volume: 2
number: 6
published: 1841-01-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Municipal Election,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 6 (January 15, 1841): 287."
printed_title: MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-01-15_2_6
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n06.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair)
  identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-01-15_2_6
start_page: 287
end_page: 287
curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1841 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-01-15_2_6
  publication_year: 1841
---

# Municipal Election

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The following candidates for the City Council have been put in nomination by different public meetings-some by one, some by another, and some by all; to wit:-

Mayor. John C. Bennett.

Aldermen (four to be elected). Daniel H. Wells, William Marks, Elias Higbee, N. K. Whitney,

Isaac Higbee, Alex. Stanley, and Samuel Smith.

Councillors [Councilors] (nine to be elected).

Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon, Hyrum Smith, John T. Barnett, Wilson Law,

Hiram Kimball, Arthur Morrison, John P. Green, Vinson Knight, Charles C. Rich,

R. D. Foster, James Robinson, Wm. Huntington, Steph. Winchester, Titus Billings,

Stephen Markham, Noah Packard, David Dort, and W. G. Wilson.

Elders Orson Hyde and John E. Page are informed, that the Lord is not well pleased with them in consequence of delaying their mission, (Elder John E. Page in particular,) and they are requested by the First Presidency to hasten their journey towards their destination.

Those of the lesser priesthood, in the City of Nauvoo, are requested to meet at my house, on the 24th inst. at 6 o'clock P. M. for the purpose of organizing and regulating that quorum. A general attendance is requested. V. KNIGHT, Bp.