Thomas C. Sharp
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER AND OPPONENT OF JOSEPH SMITH, JR.
Thomas Coke Sharp; Old Tom Sharp
Thomas Coke Sharp (September 25, 1818 – April 9, 1894) was a prominent opponent of Joseph Smith and the Latter Day Saints in Illinois in the 1840s. Sharp promoted his anti-Mormon views largely through the Warsaw Signal newspaper, of which he was the owner, editor, and publisher.