Reed Smoot

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Latter-day Saint Republican Party politician United States senator human politician

Reed Smoot was a powerful early 20th-century U.S. Senator from Utah and influential Republican policymaker best known for co-sponsoring the protectionist Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Latter-day Saint → Republican Party politician → United States senator → human → politician →
burialPlace	Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, United States →
chairpersonOf	United States Senate Committee on Finance →
committeeMemberOf	United States Senate Committee on Finance →
coSponsorOf	Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1862-01-10 →
dateOfDeath	1941-02-09 →
educatedAt	Brigham Young Academy →
endTime	1933-03-03 →
endTime (chair, Finance Committee)	1933 →
ethnicGroup	White American →
familyName	Smoot →
givenName	Reed →
hasSignature	Signature of Reed Smoot.svg →
influencedBy	protectionist economic thought →
knownFor	Smoot–Hawley Tariff → protectionist trade policy →
memberOf	Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church) → United States Senate →
nativeLanguage	English →
notableWork	Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 →
numberOfChildren	7 →
occupation	businessman → politician → religious leader →
partOf	Progressive Era politicians → interwar period U.S. Congress →
placeOfBirth	Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, United States →
placeOfDeath	St. Petersburg, Florida, United States →
politicalParty	Republican Party (United States) →
positionHeld	United States Senator from Utah →
religion	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints →
religiousTitle	Apostle →
represented	Utah →
residence	Provo, Utah, United States →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Alpha M. Eldredge →
startTime	1903-03-04 →
startTime (chair, Finance Committee)	1923 →
workLocation	Utah → Washington, D.C. →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
National Park Service Organic Act →	introducedBy
Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act →	namedAfter
Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act →	sponsor