# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-hale-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-31T22:26:33.408Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-hale-smith"
name: "Alexander Hale Smith"
slug: "alexander-hale-smith"
description: "Alexander Hale Smith was the third surviving son of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale Smith. Smith was born in Far West, Missouri. Alexander Smith became a senior leader of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Smith served as an apostle and as Presiding Patriarch of the church. He became religiously inclined after the April 1862 death of his older brother Frederick G. W. Smith, who had not been baptized, and was baptized on May 25, 1862, in Nauvoo, Illinois, by another older brother, Joseph Smith III."
tagline: "American Mormon leader (1838–1909)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Hale_Smith.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1838-06-02"
deathDate: "1909-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.439348
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  56
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hale_Smith"
    title: "Alexander Hale Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hale_Smith"
    title: "Alexander Hale Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4719048"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations