William H. Dame

Colonel William Horne Dame (July 1819 – August 1884) was an American politician and Mormon military commander.

He was a colonel, and controlled the military in Iron County, Utah.

[1][2] He was also a stake president of Parowan, Utah for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, alongside Isaac C. Haight.

[4] In 1854, Dame and Haight said that they received a patriarchal blessing to massacre the Native Americans as redemption of Zion.

[5] During the Mountain Meadows Massacre, he ordered the women to be stripped, which they were.