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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ColoradoCOSTIGAN, Edward Prentiss
(1874—1939)
Senate Years of Service:
1931-1937
Party:
Democrat
COSTIGAN, Edward Prentiss, a Senator from Colorado; born near Beaulahville, King William County, Va., July 1, 1874; moved to Colorado in 1877 with his parents, who settled in Ouray, Ouray County; attended the public schools; studied law; admitted to the bar in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1897; graduated from Harvard University in 1899; commenced the practice of law in Denver, Colo., in 1900; began his political life as a Republican; one of the founders of the Progressive Party in Colorado in 1912; unsuccessful Progressive candidate for Governor of Colorado in 1912 and 1914; appointed a member of the United States Tariff Commission by President Woodrow Wilson in 1917; and served until his resignation in March 1928; resumed the practice of law in Denver, Colo.; affiliated with the Democratic Party in 1930; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1930 and served from March 4, 1931, to January 3, 1937; was not a candidate for renomination in 1936; retired from professional and political activities and resided in Denver, Colo., until his death there on January 17, 1939; interment in Fairmount Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
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. 1940. Reprint. New York: Kennikat Press, 1968; Greenbaum, Fred. Fighting Progressive: A Biography of Edward P. Costigan
. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1971.
Brockway, Ronald Sidney, Jr. “Edward P. Costigan: A Study of a Progressive and the New Deal.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado, 1974.
Costigan, Edward Prentiss. Public Ownership of Government: Collected Papers of Edward P. Costigan
. 1940. Reprint. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1968. Foreword by George Creel includes a biographical sketch.
DeLorme, Roland L. “Edward Costigan and the Colorado Bar: A Case Study of the Status Revolution.” Mid-America
49 (July 1967): 200-213.
___. “The Shaping of a Progressive: Edward P. Costigan and Urban Reform in Denver, 1900-1911.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado, 1965.
Goodykoontz, Colin B. “Edward P. Costigan and the Tariff Commission, 1917-1928.” Pacific Historical Review
16 (November 1947): 410-19.
___, ed. Papers of Edward P. Costigan Relating to the Progressive Movement in Colorado, 1902-1917.
Boulder: University of Colorado, 1941.
Greenbaum, Fred. Fighting Progressive: A Biography of Edward P. Costigan
. Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1971.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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