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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ColoradoHorace Austin Warner TABOR
(1830-1899)
Senate Years of Service:
1883-1883Party: RepublicanTABOR, 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; later reinterred in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Jefferson
County, Colo.
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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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