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| Name | Elias M. Ammons |
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Castle Rock, Colorado , United States |
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July 28, 1860
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| Died | May 20, 1925
(64 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
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| Info | Elias Ammons was born in July, 1860, in Macon County, North Carolina. Ammons moved to Denver with his family in 1871. He initially worked in a woolen mill, but when his family moved to the Turkey Creek area, he worked in the lumber business there until the winter of 1874. Returning to Denver, he attended the Arapahoe Street School and graduated from that institution in 1880. He then obtained a position in the circulation department of the Denver Times. He later became the city editor and then the associate editor of the newspaper. In 1885, Ammons moved to Douglas County and formed a cattle business partnership with Thomas Dawson. The partnership was later dissolved when Ammons was elected Governor in 1912.
Ammons held several public offices. He was appointed by JudgeJohn Campbell as clerk for the district court in Douglas County in August of 1890. Later that year, Ammons was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives, representing Douglas County. During his first term, he was part of the Republican faction that supported James Hanna for Speaker in 1891. Re elected in 1892, Ammons became Speaker of the House and served for the 1893-1894 biennium.
When the national Republican Party voted to retain the gold standard at its 1896 convention, Ammons joined United States Senator Henry Teller to form the Silver Republican Party in Colorado. In 1898, Ammons was elected state senator for Douglas and El Paso counties, and he served from 1899 to 1902. In 1899 while in the Senate, he co-sponsored Senate Bill 52 which designated Teller County as a separate county formed from the northwest portion of El Paso County. In 1904 and again in 1906, Ammons unsuccessfully ran for Lieutenant Governor. He was elected Governor on the Democratic ticket in 1912, promising to serve only for a single term.
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