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Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel
by Holley, Val
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 1647690129
- ISBN 13
- 9781647690120
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. New. 369pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. "Utah's path to statehood was the most tortuous in U.S. history, due in no small part to the Mormon practice of polygamy. Frank J. Cannon, newspaperman, Congressional delegate, and senator, guided Utah toward becoming the forty-fifth state in the Union in 1896. But when he lost favor with the LDS Church, his contributions fell into obscurity. In the 1880s, Congress dealt with the intransigence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over polygamy by enacting punitive new laws. Mormon lobbyists who pleaded for relief in Washington came home empty-handed before Cannon finally broke the logjam. He persuaded President Grover Cleveland to appoint judges who would deal mercifully with convicted polygamists and dissuaded Congress from disenfranchising all members by pledging that the church would abandon polygamy. But when Utah elected Mormon apostle Reed Smoot to the U.S. Senate in 1903, Cannon condemned what he called the reneging of LDS Church pledges to stay out of politics. He wrote scathing denunciations of Smoot and Mormon president Joseph F. Smith, co-authored the exposé Under the Prophet in Utah, and spearheaded the National Reform Association's anti-Mormon crusade. Utah's subsequent displeasure with Cannon ensured that his critical role in its statehood would be buried by omission.
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- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59970
- Title
- Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel
- Author
- Holley, Val
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 1647690129
- ISBN 13
- 9781647690120
- Publisher
- University of Utah Press
- Place of Publication
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Date Published
- 2020
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- rwsummer2021;
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