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KEATING, Edward, a Representative from Colorado; born on a small farm near Kansas
City, Kans., on July 9, 1875; moved with his mother to Pueblo, Colo., in 1880;
moved to Denver in 1889; attended the public schools; engaged in newspaper work
as copyholder, reporter, city editor, and managing editor; city auditor of
Denver 1899-1901; member of the first convention elected to draft a charter for
the city of Denver in 1903; editor of the Rocky Mountain News 1906-1911;
president of the International League of Press Clubs in 1906 and 1907;
president of the Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners 1911-1913;
purchased the Pueblo Leader and moved to Pueblo in 1912; elected as a Democrat
to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4,
1913-March 3, 1919); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office
Department (Sixty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful for reelection in 1918 to the
Sixty-sixth Congress; editor and manager of Labor, official weekly newspaper of
the associated railroad labor organizations, published in Washington, D.C.,
until his retirement in 1953; died in Washington, D.C. on March 18, 1965;
interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Md.
BibliographyKeating, Edward.
Gentleman from Colorado: A Memoir. Denver: Sage, 1964.
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