The Nauvoo Expositor was a newspaper in Nauvoo, Illinois, that published only one issue, on June 7, 1844. Its publication, the destruction of the printed copies (which, according to the Nauvoo Charter, was the legal consequence of a newspaper deemed a public nuisance by the city council, including Joseph Smith), and the destruction of the printing press by the mob who followed the sheriff sent to collect the printed papers, set off a chain of events that led to Smith's death.