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Senate Years of Service: 1955-1973 Party: Republican
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ALLOTT, Gordon Llewellyn, a Senator from Colorado; born in Pueblo, Colo., January 2, 1907;
attended the public schools of Pueblo, Colo.; graduated from the University of
Colorado at Boulder in 1927 and from its law school in 1929; admitted to the
bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law in Pueblo, Colo.; moved to Lamar,
Colo., in 1930 and continued practicing law; county attorney of Prowers County,
Colo., in 1934 and 1941-1946; director, First Federal Savings & Loan
Association of Lamar, Colo. 1934-1960; city attorney, Lamar, Colo. 1937-1941;
during the Second World War served as a major in the United States Army Air
Corps 1942-1946; district attorney, fifteenth judicial district 1946-1948; vice
chairman State Board of Paroles 1951-1955; lieutenant governor of Colorado
1951-1955; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1954;
reelected in 1960 and again in 1966, and served from January 3, 1955, to
January 3, 1973; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1972; chairman,
Republican Policy Committee (Ninety-first and Ninety-second Congresses); died
in Englewood, Colo., January 17, 1989; interment in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver,
Colo.
BibliographyScribner Encyclopedia of American
Lives.
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