Meet the Mormon Who Met Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln never met Brigham Young. The "rough-cut" Utah figure never visited Washington, D.C.

Instead of Young, the face and voice and perceived political strategist of Mormonism in the eyes of Lincoln and other national and world leaders for the final 40 or 50 years of the 19th century was George Q. Cannon, Young's chosen ambassador, a brilliant, genteel man who kept a journal so complete and perceptive one historian calls it "one of the most valuable journals in American religious history."