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ROBERTS, Brigham Henry, a Representative from Utah; born in Warrington, Lancashire, England, March 13, 1857; immigrated to the United States in 1866 with his parents, who settled in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah; attended the district schools; was graduated from Deseret University, Salt Lake City, in 1878; taught school for several years and later worked as associate and editor in chief of the Salt Lake Herald; member of the State constitutional convention which framed the organic law of Utah in 1894; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1895 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Fifty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1899, to January 25, 1900, when the seat was declared vacant because Roberts was a polygamist; author of numerous historical, biographical, and doctrinal works; served on the State board of equalization tax department in 1916 and subsequently ordained as a minister of the gospel; during the First World War served as chaplain of the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment, Field Artillery; served as president of the Eastern States Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Brooklyn, N.Y.; died in Salt Lake City, Utah, September 27, 1933; interment in Centerville Ward Cemetery, Centerville, Davis County, Utah. |
