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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…
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- Author Val Holley
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- Pages 336
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- Publisher University of Utah Press
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- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9781647690120 / 1647690129
- Library of Congress subjects United States, Utah
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020017954
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