Claim: Latter Day Saint early leader Leonard Rich signed the Kirtland Safety Society constitution in 1837 and was excommunicated by the church in the same year.
Evidence: Leonard Rich (1800–1868) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the inaugural seven Presidents of the Seventy. In January 1837, Rich signed the new constitution of the Kirtland Safety Society. That fall, he dissented from the church and in December the church excommunicated him.