Fred Dubois: Idaho Statehood Champion and Anti-Mormon Crusader

On July 3, 1890, Idaho was admitted to the union. Perhaps its most effective advocate for statehood was territorial delegate Fred Thomas Dubois (1851-1930), who personally lobbied President Benjamin Harrison for admission. In the process of doing so, he invoked that his grandfather had fought alongside William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe.…