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  Zahnd, John
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  1932-01-01  
 
NameJohn Zahnd
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Beech Grove , Indiana , United States
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Born April 13, 1877
DiedFebruary 02, 1961 (83 years)
ContributorThomas Walker
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Jun 26, 2020 03:09pm
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InfoZAHND, John - Real estate broker and third party activist from Indianapolis IN.

Born 1878 in Doolittle's Mill WV.

Married Erma J. Zahnd; one son.

Active in the call for the Farmer Labor Party National Convention in 1920 and was a delegate

Candidate for US President on several party labels, all for a political party that revolved around him. The party was called the Independent Party 1920-1927, the National Party 1927-c. 1937, and the Greenback Party thereafter. Presidential nominee 1924-1940 but only obtained ballot status in 1932.

Candidate for US Senate (National Party-IN) 1928

National Chairman of the Greenback Party 1940-1961. The main idea of the party was to issue new greenbacks to erase the national debt. Zahnd did not have a proposal for handling the rampant inflation that would be associated with his proposal.

Died 2/2/1961 in Indianapolis IN.

Note: Zahnd founded the Church of Christ/Order of Zion (Defunct) in 1918:

The Church of Christ/Order of Zion was organized in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1918 by John Zahnd, a former member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Zahnd emerged during World War I as a critic of church organization. He rejected the idea of a First Presidency, seeing it as an umbilical office, and suggested that the church should be headed by the Twelve Apostles. His conclusions led him to believe that Joseph Smith, Jr., the prophet to whom Mormons look as their founder, should never have taken the authority to assume the presidency of the church, though he was undoubtedly a prophet of God. Equally important, Zahnd believed that the entire church should be living according to the united order, that is, communally.

The church was organized in September 1918. He began a periodical, The Order of Zion. The next month Zahnd received a revelation designating him an apostle (elder) and naming several men as priests and apostles. Two men were also named as bishops to handle the temporal afairs of the church. At the annual meeting of the church, 12 men among the elders were chosen by casting lots as the Twelve Apostles to head the church.

The church seems to have survived approximately a decade in the Kansas City area.

Sources:
Zahnd, John. All Things Common. Kansas City, MO: Church of Christ/Order of Zion, 1919. 68 pp.

——. The Old Paths. Kansas City, MO: Church of Christ/Order of Zion, 1920. 28 pp.

——. The Order of Zion. Kansas City, MO: Order of Zion, n.d. 89 pp.



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