Hosea Stout (September 18, 1810 – March 2, 1889) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, a Mormon pioneer, soldier, chief of police, lawyer, missionary, and politician in Utah Territory.

In 1832, Stout enlisted with United States Mounted Ranger Battalion under Major Henry Dodge to fight in the Black Hawk War.

During the time of the Black Hawk War, Stout became acquainted with the Latter Day Saints movement and was taught by Charles C. Rich, who later became an apostle.

After the Latter Day Saints were forced to leave Missouri and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, Stout served as a bodyguard for Joseph Smith.

[1] He was further set apart as president of the eleventh Quorum of Seventies and made a member of the Council of Fifty, an organization created by Joseph Smith in preparation for the Second Coming of Christ.

[5] After Brigham Young and the church were forced to leave Nauvoo in 1846, Stout served as the chief of police in Winter Quarters, Nebraska, when the Latter Day Saints migrated there.

[6] An early Mormon pioneer, Stout arrived in the Salt Lake Valley as a member of Heber C. Kimball's company in September 1848.

On August 28, 1852, a decision was made by church leaders that missionaries Hosea Stout, James Lewis, and Chapman Duncan, along with Walter Thompson, were to travel on a mission to China.