Reed Smoot
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Reed Smoot was an American politician, businessman, and apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A Republican who was first elected to the U.S. Senate by the Utah State Legislature
Smoot c. late 1910s
Willis C. Hawley (left) and Smoot in April 1929, shortly before the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act passed the House
Abraham O. Smoot
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Abraham Owen Smoot was an American pioneer, businessman, religious leader, and politician. He spent his early life in the Southern United States and was one of seven children. After being baptized a m
Reed Smoot
…his death, he was third in the line of succession to lead the church. Smoot was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory on January 10, 1862, the son of Abraham O. Smoot, who served as mayor of the city from 1856 to 1862, and Anne Kristina Morrison Smoot, also known as Anne Kirstine Mauritzen before her marriage. Anne…
Photo of A. O. Smoot by C. R. Savage
Abraham O. Smoot, c. 1880
Smoot Administration Building at BYU
Provo Tabernacle, 1914, which Smoot helped fund and construct