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If you think questions of morality are only part of the contemporary political scene, you need to be reminded of Utah's first United States Senator.
As Utah neared statehood in the 1890s, attorney Arthur Brown rose steadily in the local Republican Party ranks. . . eventually being selected by the legislature to serve as Utah's first senator in Washington.
At the same time, Senator Brown started an affair with a woman thirty years his junior. The rumors and fading public confidence resulted in Brown serving only one year.
Brown's mistress claimed the senator had fathered her children. And when Arthur Brown refused to marry the woman, she shot him in a Washington hotel room.
So ended the life of Utah's first United States Senator.
It's a little known page from Utah's political past. . .your vote in 2000 can help write the next chapter of history.
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As Utah's first U.S. Senator, Arthur Brown (pictured) served only one twelve-month term before leaving office in March 1897.