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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—UtahSMOOT, Reed
(1862—1941)
Senate Years of Service:
1903-1933
Party:
Republican
SMOOT, Reed, a Senator from Utah; born in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 10, 1862; moved with his parents to Provo, Utah County, Utah, in 1874; attended Mormon church schools and academies and graduated from the Brigham Young Academy (now Brigham Young University) at Provo in 1879; engaged in banking, mining, livestock raising, and in the manufacture of woolen goods; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1902; reelected in 1908, 1914, 1920 and 1926 and served from March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1933; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932; chairman, Committee on Patents (Sixtieth Congress), Committee on Printing (Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses), Committee on Public Lands (Sixty-second and Sixty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Sixty-seventh Congress), Committee on Finance (Sixty-eighth through Seventy-second Congresses); co-author of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930; moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1933; retired from active business pursuits; served as one of the twelve apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon Church) and at the time of his death was next in line to succeed the president of the quorum and third to succeed the president; died in St. Petersburg, Fla., February 9, 1941; interment in Provo Burial Park, Provo, Utah.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Heath, Harvard S., ed. In the World: The Diaries of Reed Smoot
. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1995; Merrill, Milton R. Reed Smoot: Apostle in Politics
. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1990; Flake, Kathleen. The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Alexander, Thomas G. “Red Rock and Gray Stone: Senator Reed Smoot, the Establishment of Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks, and the Rebuilding of Downtown Washington, D.C.” Pacific Historical Review
72:1 (2003): 1-38.
___. “Senator Reed Smoot and Western Land Policy, 1905-1920.” Arizona and the West
13 (Autumn 1971): 245-64.
___. “Teapot Dome Revisited: Reed Smoot and Conservation in the 1920s.” Utah Historical Quarterly
45 (Fall 1977): 352-68.
___. “The Conservative & Conservation: Senator Reed Smoot and America’s Public Lands, 1903-1933.” Beehive History
(2000): 22-25.
Allen, James B. “The Great Protectionist, Sen. Reed Smoot of Utah.” Utah Historical Quarterly
45 (Fall 1977): 325-45.
Cardon, A.F. “Senator Reed Smoot and the Mexican Revolutions.”Utah Historical Quarterly
31 (Spring 1963): 151-63.
Flake, Kathleen. The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Heath, Harvard S. “Reed Smoot: The First Modern Mormon.” Ph.D. dissertation, Brigham Young University, 1990.
___, ed. In the World: The Diaries of Reed Smoot
. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1995.
Holsinger, M. Paul. “For God and the American Home: The Attempt to Unseat Senator Reed Smoot, 1903-1907.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly
60 (July 1969): 154-60.
Merrill, Milton R. Reed Smoot: Apostle in Politics
. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1990.
Rogers, Kristen Smart. “Another Good Man: Anthony W. Ivins and the Defeat of Reed Smoot.” Utah Historical Quarterly
68 (Winter 2000): 55-75.
Shipps, Jan. “The Public Image of Senator Reed Smoot, 1902-1932.” Utah Historical Quarterly
45 (Fall 1977): 380-400.
Thomas, John C. “Apostolic Diplomacy: The 1923 European Mission of Senator Reed Smoot and Professor John A. Widtsoe.” Journal of Mormon History
28:1 (2002): 130-165.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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