Which US President signed the law outlawing polygamy? When did he sign it?

Question

I heard it was Abraham Lincoln.

Answer 1

It's not a federal law. Congress cannot regulate marriage, except in terms of providing federal benefits to married couples.

Laws regarding marriage are primarily within state control, and each state enacted laws against polygamy at different times.

Answer 2

There are no Federal statutes expressly prohibiting plural marriage. In fact the US S. Ct. upheld the inheritance rights of American Indians born to plural wives (Jones v. Meeks, 1899) . The only Federal statutes limiting polygamy are immigration statutes that exclude polygamous wives from entry under statutes generally granting spousal entry. As I recall the territorial legislature of Utah agreed to place that prohibition in its Constitution as a condition of admittance to the Union. In 1946 a sharply divided US S. Ct., in Cleveland vs. US, upheld a Federal prosecution under the Federal Mann Act, which prohibited transporting a woman across state lines for "immoral purposes." Enacted to combat prostitution, the Utah US attorney prosecuted an individual member of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, who traveled with one of his his wives across state lines.

Answer 3

It wasn't a law signed by a president. It was a Supreme Court case in which justices ruled that Mormons can not have several wives simultaneously. Ask Mitt Romney about that case. He surely read about it.

Answer 4

This occured in 1879 by Supreme Court decision case called Reynolds vs. United States 1879

Answer 5

I think it was FDR. He resented the fact that he had one ugly wife and that some Mormon men had several pretty wives.

Answer 6

I know it wasn't Clinton!