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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ColoradoTABOR, Horace Austin Warner
(1830—1899)
Senate Years of Service:
1883-1883
Party:
Republican
TABOR, Horace Austin Warner, a Senator from Colorado; born in Holland, Orleans County, Vt., November 26, 1830; attended the common schools; worked at the stonecutter’s trade in Maine and Vermont; moved to Kansas in 1855 and settled in Riley County; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member, Kansas legislature 1856-1857; in 1859 joined the Pike’s Peak gold rush and moved to Denver, Colo.; followed gold discoveries around the West; discovered silver instead and made several important strikes; settled in Leadville, Colo.; engaged in mining and mercantile pursuits; postmaster of Leadville 1878; mayor 1878-1879; treasurer of Lake County; lieutenant governor of Colorado 1879-1883; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry M. Teller and served from January 27 to March 3, 1883; was not a candidate for reelection; postmaster of Denver, Colo., from 1898 until his death on April 10, 1899; interment in Mount Calvary Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography
; Gandy, Lewis. The Tabors, A Footnote of Western History
. New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1934; Smith, Duane. Horace Tabor: His Life and Legend
. Boulder: Associated University Press, 1973.
Gandy, Lewis Cass. The Tabors: A Footnote of Western History
. New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1934.
Karsner, David. Silver Dollar: The Story of the Tabors
. New York: Covici, Friede, 1932.
Smith, Duane A. Horace Tabor: His Life and the Legend
. 1973. Reprint. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 1989.
___. “The Kansas Days of Horace Tabor.” Kansas Historical Quarterly
39 (Autumn 1973): 367-78.
___. “Vermont Remembered: ‘Silver King’ Tabor Recalls His Boyhood.” Vermont History
40 (Spring 1972): 117-21.
Smith, Duane A., and David Fridtjof Halaas. “A Fifty-Niner Miner: The Career of Horace A. W. Tabor.” Colorado Heritage
2 (1983): 25-33.
Willison, George Findlay. Here They Dug the Gold
. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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