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Richard Louis Jensen (born 1943) is an American historian who specializes in the study of the 19th-century Latter Day Saint movement in Europe and of 19th-century European Latter Day Saint immigrants in the United States. Jensen received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Utah State University and a Master of Arts degree in history from Ohio State University in 1972. Among his writings are Mormons in Early Victorian Britain. Jensen was a research historian with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History during its entire existence. Jensen is currently one of the co-editors involved in the Joseph Smith Papers Project.

References

1. Walker, Ronald W.; Whittaker, David J.; Allen, James B. (2001). Mormon History. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-252-02619-5.
2. Jensen, Richard Louis (1972). Danes in the Reichstag, 1867–1881: The Activities of the Danish Deputies from North Schleswig (master's thesis). Ohio State University.

• Joseph Smith papers bio

External links

• Richard L. Jensen at the MLCA Database

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