List of Joseph Smith's wives

, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, taught and practiced religious polygamy, termed "plural marriage" during his adulthood, marrying an estimated 30 to 40 wives throughout his lifetime. Smith and some of the top leaders of the church he founded publicly denied he taught or practiced it.
In 1852, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints publicly acknowledged that Smith had practiced plural marriage and produced a statement of Smith's which he said was a revelation from God authorizing its practice. Smith's lawful widow Emma Smith, his son Joseph Smith III, and most members of the Community of Christ attempted for years to refute the evidence of plural marriages. They pointed to Smith's public statements opposing polygamy, and stated that plural marriage began in Utah under the leadership of Brigham Young.
The first publication of a list of those alleged to be Smith's plural wives was in 1887, by Andrew Jenson, an assistant LDS Church historian. It included 27 names besides Emma Smith. There are currently 49 wives on this list. However, historians disagree as to the number and identity of the polygamous wives Smith had. Various scholars and historians, including Fawn M. Brodie, George D. Smith, and Todd Compton, have attempted to identify the individuals who married Smith. The discrepancy is created by the lack of documents to support some of the reported marriages. Apart from his marriage to Emma, Smith's marriages were not solemnized under any civil authority and were therefore solely religious unions.

List of reported wives

Allegations of children born to polygamous wives

Research by Ugo A. Perego, a geneticist and member of the LDS Church, has shown that a number of children of Smith's alleged polygamous relationships were not his genetic offspring. The following table lists some of the children born to Smith's alleged polygamous wives as well as those ruled out by genetic testing:

Child	Date of birth	Mother	Father	DNA testing status	DNA testing result	Notes
Oliver Buell	1838–39	Presendia Huntington Buell	Norman Buell	Completed November 2007	Negative	Historian Fawn Brodie speculated that Buell was a polygamous son of Smith.
John Reed Hancock	April 19, 1841	Clarissa Reed Hancock	Levi Hancock	Completed July 2011	Negative	Only anecdotal evidence that Clarissa Reed Hancock was a plural wife of Smith.
Mosiah Hancock	April 9, 1834	Clarissa Reed Hancock	Levi Hancock	Completed November 2007	Negative	Only anecdotal evidence that Clarissa Reed Hancock was a plural wife of Smith.
Frank Henry Hyde	January 23, 1845 or 1846	Marinda Johnson Hyde	Orson Hyde	Incomplete	?
Orson Washington Hyde	November 9, 1843	Marinda Johnson Hyde	Orson Hyde	Not possible, died in infancy	n/a
Zebulon Jacobs	January 2, 1842	Zina Huntington Jacobs	Henry Jacobs	Completed May 2005	Negative
George Algernon Lightner	March 22, 1842	Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner	Adam Lightner	Not possible, died in infancy	n/a
Josephine Rosetta Lyon	February 8, 1844	Sylvia Porter Sessions Lyon	Windsor Lyon	Completed June 2016	Negative	Not long before dying, Sylvia Lyon told Josephine that she was Smith's daughter.
Moroni Pratt	December 7, 1844	Mary Ann Frost Stearns Pratt	Parley P. Pratt	Completed May 2005	Negative