B. H. Roberts

Brigham Henry Roberts ( born March 13, 1857 in Warrington, England; † September 27, 1933 in Salt Lake City, Utah ) was an American politician. He was a leading member of the Mormon Church and elected member of the U.S. House of Representatives, but was denied his seat the.

Early years

Brigham Roberts' parents became members of the Mormon Church, in which the young Henry grew up then in the year of his birth. By his own account of his youth was rather unhappy in England. In 1866 he emigrated with his sister to America. In the United States he settled in 1867 in Salt Lake City down where it came to a reunion with his mother, who had emigrated before him. In his new home, he received a good education, among others, at the Deseret University. He worked occasionally as a teacher, in mining and in the newspaper business.

Ecclesiastical career

In his new home, Roberts made ​​both within his church as well as in political life career. In ecclesiastical sphere, he was ordained as a priest. He was at times as a missionary traveling and dealt with the history of his church, about which he has published numerous books. He grew up in the extended board of the church and was a supporter of polygamy. As a clergyman, he joined in 1917 at the American entry into the First World War, the U.S. Army and served in France with an American artillery regiment. Between 1922 and 1927 he headed the mission of his church in New York City.

Political career and other CV

Brigham Roberts was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1894 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the constitution of Utah. There he appeared as opponents of women's suffrage. In 1895 he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives. His political activity, especially in the Democratic Party, was in his church, which was the Republicans closer, not without controversy. Nevertheless, Roberts initially remained loyal to the policy. In the congressional elections of 1898, he was elected as a candidate of his party in the U.S. House of Representatives. He should take his seat on March 4, 1899. This seat was but he refused because he ran the legally banned polygamy, by whom he was married with several women simultaneously. He was not qualified for the Congress under the amended federal legislation.

After the end of his political ambitions Roberts went back to his church activities, the him, as mentioned above, led on the First World War to the Head of Mission to New York City. He spent his back in Utah. He died in 1933 from diabetes mellitus.