Category: LDS History

• Mormon Treasure of the 1930s

  The Mormon Treasure of the 1930s theory held that during and after Roosevelt’s gold measures, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was quietly acquiring large amounts of confiscated gold through private channels, proxies, or favored intermediaries, building a hidden reserve for the last days or for institutional independence. In the strongest version, the Church’s public welfare program and reputation for self-reliance hid a parallel accumulation of hard money. The historical basis beneath the rumor was indirect but suggestive: Roosevelt’s 1933 gold order did force surrender of most monetary gold, the Church faced real Depression-era financial pressure, and in 1936 it organized a major welfare and self-reliance program. The conspiracy version fused confiscation, secrecy, and Mormon eschatological storage culture into one buried treasury narrative.