Reed Smoot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Reed Smoot

United States Senator from Utah

Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1862

Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Date of Death: 09-Feb-1941

Profession: politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Reed Smoot (January 10, 1862 – February 9, 1941) was a businessman and apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) when he was elected by the Utah state legislature to the United States Senate in 1902; he served as a Republican senator from 1903 to 1933.
From his time in the Senate, Smoot is primarily remembered as the co-sponsor of the 1930 Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, which increased almost 900 American import duties.
Thomas Lamont, a partner at J.P.
Morgan at the time said, "That Act intensified nationalism all over the world".
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is widely regarded as one of the catalysts for the Great Depression.Smoot was a prominent leader of the LDS Church, chosen to serve as an apostle in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1900.
His role in the LDS Church (together with rumors of a secret church policy continuing polygamy and a secret oath against the United States) led to a lengthy controversy of four years after he was elected to the Senate in 1903.
A Senate committee investigated his eligibility to serve, known as the Reed Smoot hearings, and recommended against him, but the full Senate voted to seat him.
Smoot continued to be re-elected to successive terms until he lost his seat in the 1932 elections.
Smoot returned to Utah in 1933.
Retiring from politics and business, he devoted himself to the church.
At the time of his death, he was third in the line of succession to lead the LDS Church.