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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ColoradoEdward KEATING
(1875-1965)
KEATING, Edward, a
Representative from Colorado; born on a small farm near Kansas
City, Kans., on July 9, 1875; moved with his mother to Pueblo,
Colo., in 1880; moved to Denver in 1889; attended the public
schools; engaged in newspaper work as copyholder, reporter, city
editor, and managing editor; city auditor of Denver 1899-1901;
member of the first convention elected to draft a charter for the
city of Denver in 1903; editor of the Rocky Mountain News
1906-1911; president of the International League of Press Clubs in
1906 and 1907; president of the Colorado State Board of Land
Commissioners 1911-1913; purchased the Pueblo Leader and moved to
Pueblo in 1912; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third,
Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3,
1919); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office
Department (Sixty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful for reelection in
1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; editor and manager of Labor,
official weekly newspaper of the associated railroad labor
organizations, published in Washington, D.C., until his retirement
in 1953; died in Washington, D.C. on March 18, 1965; interment in
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Md.
Bibliography
Keating, Edward. Gentleman from Colorado: A Memoir. Denver:
Sage, 1964.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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