The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
by
Kathleen Flake
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Between 1901 and 1907, a broad coalition of Protestant churches sought to expel newly elected Reed Smoot from the Senate, arguing that as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Smoot was a lawbreaker and therefore unfit to be a lawmaker. The resulting Senate investigative hearing...