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So while looking through early Mormon history for an interesting PoD I could use, I noticed while looking at the list of the original Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles that Brigham Young was ordained on February 14th, 1835. He was the most senior LDS apostle remaining unexcommunicated at the time of Joseph Smith's death, and thus became President of the Quorum of the Twelve, and by virtue of being the "claimant" for that form of leadership over the Church, eventually became President of the Church.

But I noticed that another loyal apostle Parley P. Pratt, was ordained just seven days later, on February 21st, 1835. But what if the order had been reversed, and Pratt ordained an apostle on the 14th and Brigham Young on the 21st, thus making Pratt the President of the Quorum of the Twelve and de facto leader of one of the church factions during the succession crisis after Joseph Smith's death? Pratt had a very different personality than Young had (for example, less... divisive racial attitudes), so what effect could that change have?
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