In 1861 the illegal territory of Jefferson - set up by golddiggers in eastern
Kansas in 1859 - was enlarged with parts of the surrounding Kansas, Nebraska,
New Mexico and Utah Territories to become the new U.S. Territory of Colorado.
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TERRITORIAL OFFICERS
Territorial Governors (1)
(1) Subordinated to the Department of State until 1873,
afterwards to the Department of the Interior.
1869 - 1873 Edward Moody McCook 1833 - 1909
1873 - 1874 Samuel Hitt Elbert 1833 - 1899
1874 - 1875 Edward Moody McCook (2x)
1875 - 1876 John Long Routt 1826 - 1907
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REPRESENTATIVES TO THE U.S. CONGRESS
Territorial Delegates
1869 - 1871 Allen Alexander Bradford 1815 - 1888
1871 - 1875 Jerome Bunty Chaffee 1825 - 1886
1875 - 1876 Thomas MacDonald Patterson 1839 - 1916
U.S. STATE OF COLORADO
In 1876 Colorado became a State of the Union. (2)
(2) U.S. authority was only firmly established over the whole
state in 1879 after the surrender of the last Ute bands.
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STATE OFFICERS
Governors
1876 - 1879 John Long Routt s.a.
1879 - 1883 Frederick Walter Pitkin 1837 - 1886
1883 - 1885 James Benton Grant 1848 - 1911
1885 - 1887 Benjamin Harrison Eaton 1833 - 1904
1887 - 1889 Alva Adams 1850 - 1922
1889 - 1891 Job Adams Cooper 1843 - 1899
1891 - 1893 John Long Routt (2x)
1893 - 1895 Davis Hanson Waite 1825 - 1901
1895 - 1897 Albert Washington McIntire 1853 - 1935
1897 - 1899 Alva Adams (2x)
1899 - 1901 Charles Spalsing Thomas 1849 - 1934
1901 - 1903 James Bradley Orman 1849 - 1919
1903 - 1905 James Hamilton Peabody 1852 - 1917
1905 Alva Adams (3x)
1905 James Hamilton Peabody (2x)
1905 - 1907 Jesse Fuller McDonald 1858 - 1942
1907 - 1909 Henry Augustus Buchtel 1847 - 1922
1909 - 1913 John Franklin Shafroth 1854 - 1922
1913 - 1915 Elias Milton Ammons 1860 - 1925
1915 - 1917 George Alfred Carlson 1876 - 1926
1917 - 1919 Julius Caldeen Gunter 1858 - 1940
1919 - 1923 Oliver Henry Shoup 1869 - 1940
1923 - 1925 William Ellery Sweet 1869 - 1942
1925 - 1927 Clarence Joseph Morley 1869 - 1948
1927 - 1933 William Herbert Adams 1861 - 1954
1933 - 1937 Edwin Carl Johnson 1884 - 1970
1937 Ray Herbert Talbot 1896 - 1955
1937 - 1939 Teller Ammons 1895 - 1972
1939 - 1943 Ralph L. Carr 1887 - 1950
1943 - 1947 John Charles Vivian 1887 - 1964
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