# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/reed-owen-smoot
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:29:28.257Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/reed-owen-smoot"
name: "Reed Owen Smoot"
slug: "reed-owen-smoot"
description: "Reed Smoot was an American politician, businessman, and apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A Republican who was first elected to the U.S. Senate by the Utah State Legislature in 1902, he served from 1903 to 1933. Smoot is primarily remembered as the co-sponsor of the 1930 Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, which increased almost 900 American import duties. Criticized at the time as having \"intensified nationalism all over the world\" by Thomas Lamont of J.P. Morgan & Co., Smoot–Hawley is widely regarded as one of the catalysts for the worsening Great Depression."
tagline: "United States Senator and LDS Apostle (1862–1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SMOOT%2C_REED._SENATOR_LCCN2016862403_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1862-01-10"
deathDate: "1941-02-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.104072398190045
  historical:           11.00439733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ريد سموت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Reed Smoot"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Reed Smoot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Reed Smoot"
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    title: "Reed Smoot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Reed Smoot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Smoot"
    title: "Reed Smoot"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump