The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle

by KathleenFlake (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $49.37

  Between 1901 and 1907, a 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 unfit to be a lawmaker. The resulting Senate hearing featured testimony on every peculiarity of Mormonism.