The Reed Smoot Hearings w/John Larsen

The Reed Smoot Hearings: When Mormon Theocracy Met the U.S. Senate

The Reed Smoot Hearings represent the moment Mormonism faced its own reflection in the American political mirror and realized the reflection showed a theocracy. In 1903, Reed Smoot, an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, walked into the United States Senate expecting to take his seat as Utah’s new senator. Instead,