PoliticalGraveyard.com

Merchant Politicians in Colorado
not elsewhere classified

Frank Adams (b. 1856) — of Gunnison, Gunnison County, Colo. Born in Iowa County, Wis., August 29, 1856. Democrat. Merchant; cattle trader; mayor of Gunnison, Colo., 1884; postmaster; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Colorado, 1892 (member, Committee to Notify Nominees); national bank examiner, 1893. Burial location unknown.   William Silas Hill (1886-1972) — also known as William S. Hill — of Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colo. Born in Corning, Nemaha County, Kan., January 20, 1886. Republican. School teacher; superintendent of schools; merchant; member of Colorado state legislature, 1920; secretary to Gov. Ralph Carr; U.S. Representative from Colorado 2nd District, 1941-59; defeated, 1938; delegate to Republican National Convention from Colorado, 1964. Presbyterian. Member, Farm Bureau; Rotary; Elks; Odd Fellows. Died in Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colo., August 28, 1972 (age 86 years, 221 days). Interment at Grandview Cemetery, Fort Collins, Colo.   Relatives: Married, March 25, 1907, to S. Rachel Trower.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   James Hamilton Peabody (1852-1917) — also known as James H. Peabody — of Canon City, Fremont County, Colo. Born in Topsham, Orange County, Vt., August 21, 1852. Republican. Merchant; Fremont County Clerk, 1885-89; president, First National Bank; president, Electric Light Company of Canon City; mayor of Canon City; Governor of Colorado, 1903-05, 1905; delegate to Republican National Convention from Colorado, 1904. Episcopalian. Died November 23, 1917 (age 65 years, 94 days). Interment at Greenwood Cemetery, Canon City, Colo.   Relatives: Married to Frances L. Clelland.   See also National Governors Association biography   George Laird Shoup (1836-1904) — also known as George L. Shoup — of Colorado; Lemhi County, Idaho; Salmon, Lemhi County, Idaho; Boise, Ada County, Idaho. Born in Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pa., June 15, 1836. Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; merchant; delegate to Colorado state constitutional convention, 1864; Lemhi County Treasurer; member of Idaho territorial House of Representatives, 1874; member Idaho territorial council, 1878; delegate to Republican National Convention from Idaho Territory, 1880; member of Republican National Committee from Idaho Territory, 1880-84, 1888-90; Governor of Idaho Territory, 1889-90; member of Republican National Committee from Idaho, 1890-92, 1896; Governor of Idaho, 1890; U.S. Senator from Idaho, 1890-1901. Member, Freemasons. Died in Boise, Ada County, Idaho, December 21, 1904 (age 68 years, 189 days). Interment at Pioneer Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.   Relatives: Great-grandfather of Richard Gardner Shoup.   The community of Shoup, Idaho, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS George L. Shoup (built 1943 at Portland, Oregon; scrapped 1970) was named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.
	The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.
	The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
	Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
	The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/merchant.html.
	Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
	If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.