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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ColoradoHenry Moore TELLER
(1830-1914)
Senate Years of Service:
1876-1882; 1885-1897; 1897-1901; 1901-1909Party: Republican; Republican;
Silver Republican; DemocratTELLER, Henry Moore, a
Senator from Colorado; born in Granger, Allegany County, N.Y., May
23, 1830; attended Rushford and Alfred Academies in New York;
taught school; studied law and was admitted to the bar in
Binghamton, N.Y., in 1858; moved to Illinois in 1858 and to
Colorado in 1861; major general of Colorado militia 1862-1864;
involved in railroad and real estate development; upon the
admission of Colorado as a State into the Union in 1876 was elected
as a Republican to the United States Senate; reelected, and served
from November 15, 1876, until his resignation on April 17, 1882, to
accept a Cabinet position; chairman, Committee on Civil Service and
Retrenchment (Forty-fifth Congress), Committee on Pensions
(Forty-seventh Congress); appointed Secretary of the Interior in
the Cabinet of President Chester Arthur 1882-1885; elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate in 1885 and 1891, as a
Silver Republican in 1897, and as a Democrat in 1903, and served
from March 4, 1885, to March 3, 1909; declined to be a candidate
for renomination; chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining
(Forty-ninth Congress), Committee on Patents (Fiftieth through
Fifty-second Congresses), Committee on Privileges and Elections
(Fifty-second Congress), Committee on Claims (Fifty-fourth and
Fifty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Private Land Claims
(Fifty-sixth through Sixtieth Congresses); member of the United
States Monetary Commission 1908-1912; engaged in the practice of
law until his death in Denver, Colo., February 23, 1914; interment
in Fairmount Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Ellis, Elmer. Henry
Moore Teller: Defender of the West. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton
Printers, 1941; Holsinger, M. Paul. “Henry M. Teller and the
Edmunds-Tucker Act.” Colorado Magazine 48 (Winter
1971): 1-14.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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