It's been awhile since I've posted in this thread, so heres another leader list.
List of President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS)
1. Joseph Smith Jr. (1830-1844)
2. Brigham Young (1844-1877)
3. John Taylor (1877-1881) [1]
4. Franklin D. Richards I (1881-1899) [2]*
5: Lorenzo Snow (1899-1901)
6: Francis M. Lyman (1901-1916) [3]
7. Heber Louis Jackson (1916) [4]**
8. Charles W. Nibley (1916-1931) [5]
9. Heber Young (1931-1937) [6]
10. Melvin J. Ballard (1937-1939)
11. Joseph White Musser (1939-1944) [7]***
12. Richard R. Lyman (1944- ) [8]
[1] Disappeared during the Mormon War of 1881 and probably died in the Utah desert. His remains were never found.
[2] Richards was placed in control of the LDS church by the US government after he and the rest of the Church promised not to rebel against and remain loyal to the US government. Under his rule, polygamy was banned within the LDS church in 1886 and Utah was admitted to the Union as a state in 1896.
[3] Led the Mormon Rebellion of 1915-1916 and died of a heart attack shortly before the end of the revolt.
[4] ATL son of Thomas Jackson (1823-1883), an English-born member of the LDS church.
[5] Nibley was placed in control of the LDS church by the US government after he and the rest of the Church promised not to rebel against and remain loyal to the US government. New 1st and 2nd Counselors and Apostles were all appointed on the condition they swear loyalty to the US government.
[6] Young (1901-1995) was ATL son of Bingham Young Jr. He was only de-facto President because Mormon fundamentalists would not accept his Presidency. He resigned in 1937 after running for governor of Utah.
[7] Musser was a leader in the Mormon Fundamentalist movement within the LDS church who made compromises with the moderates to get elected President and who then led the Mormon Rebellion of 1942-1944.
[8] Lyman was placed in control of the LDS church by the US government after he and the rest of the Church promised not to rebel against and remain loyal to the US government. New moderate 1st and 2nd Counselors and Apostles were all appointed on the condition they swear loyalty to the US government in return for the Church being allowed to stay in Salt Lake City, Utah.****
*In 1881, 1st Counselor George Q. Cannon (1827-1881), 2nd Counselor Joseph Feilding Smith Sir. (1838-1881), Counselor to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Daniel Wells (1814-1881) two Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Wilford Woodruff (1807-1881) and Orson Pratt (1811-1881) and interim "President of Deseret" Angus M. Cannon (1834-1881) were executed for insurrection against the US government.
**In 1916, President Heber Louis Jackson (1865-1916), all members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Heber J. Grant, Rudger Clawson, Reed Smoot, Hyrum M. Smith, George Albert Smith, George F. Richards, Orson F. Whitney, David O. McKay, Anthony W. Ivins, Joseph Feilding Smith Jr. and James E. Talmadge, were executed for insurrection against the US government. 1st Counselor Anthon H. Lund (1844-1919), 2nd Counselor Charles W. Penrose (1832-1922), were sentenced to life-imprisonment at Leavenworth Prison due to their old age.
***In 1946, the 1st Counselor Joseph Smith Jessop (1869-1946), 2nd Counselor John Y. Barlow (1874-1946) and all Twelve Apostles, Charles W. Kingston (1884-1946), Gordon Roberts Woolley Sr. (1886-1946), Alma Dayer LeBaron Sr. (1886-1946), Leroy S. Johnson (1888-1946), J. Leslie Broadbent (1891-1946), Charles Zitting (1894-1946), Thomas Matthews Woolley (1894-1946), Earl Roberts Woolley (1899-1946), Calvin Roberts Wolley (1901-1946), Louis Kelsch (1905-1946), Alma A. Thompson (1905-1946) and Rulon Jeffs (1909-1946), were executed for insurrection against the US government, and all other Mormon Fundamentalist leaders were sentenced to deportation and indefinite imprisonment on the Big Island of Hawaii.
****The new 1st Counselor was J. Rueben Clark Sr., the new 2nd Councelor was Henry D. Moyle and the new Twelve Apostles were Charles A. Callis, Joseph F. Merrill, John A. Widtsoe, Albert E. Bowen, Stephen L. Richards, Hugh B. Brown, LeGrand Richards, Adam S. Bennion, Spencer W. Kimball, Matthew Cowley, Harold B. Lee and Ezra Taft Benson. Some of these Apostles were removed from the Quorum by President Musser.