Petition Against Brigham H. Roberts, 1899

Resolved that the election of Brigham H. Roberts to a seat in the House of Representatives in the Fifty-Sixth Congress from the State of Utah is an insult to the women of the United States, an intentional insult to the citizens of America, and an insult to the members of the said Congress . . .

Petition Against Brigham H. Roberts 1899

In 1898 a Mormon leader was elected to the United States House of Representatives. As the petitioners demanded, the House denied his seat because he was a polygamist married to three women.

National Archives, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives