‘Mormon Land’: What you didn’t know about the most powerful LDS senator ever, the guy who took it to Romney and won for Obama

‘Mormon Land’: What you didn’t know about the most powerful LDS senator ever, the guy who took it to Romney and won for Obama

Mitt Romney may be the most famous Mormon politician, but the title of highest-ranking elected Latter-day Saint in U.S. history belongs not to a rich Utah Republican with a patrician background and deep ties in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but rather to a self-made Nevada Democrat with hardscrabble roots who converted to the faith.