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Tabor, Horace Austin Warner, 1830-1899

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Personal name headingTabor, Horace Austin Warner, 1830-1899
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Variant(s)Tabor, Mr. (Horace Austin Warner), 1830-1899
Birth date1830-11-26
Death date1899-04-10
Place of birthHolland (Vt.)
Place of deathDenver (Colo.)
AffiliationUnited States. Congress. Senate
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Found inSmith, D.A. Horace Tabor, 1989, c1973: CIP t.p. (Horace Tabor)
LC data base, 9-18-89 (hdg.: Tabor, Horace Austin Warner, 1830-1899; usage: Horace Austin Warner Tabor, 1830-1899, Horace A.W. Tabor)
In the Senate of the United States. February 17, 1883, 1883: p. 1 (Mr. Tabor, from the Committee on Pensions)
Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. online, viewed Feb. 24, 2009 (Tabor, Horace Austin Warner, a Senator from Colo.; b. Nov. 26, 1830; d. Apr. 10, 1899)
Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed December 16, 2021 (Tabor, Horace Austin Warner, a Senator from Colorado; born in Holland, Orleans County, Vt., November 26, 1830; attended the common schools; worked at the stonecutter's trade in Maine and Vermont; moved to Kansas in 1855 and settled in Riley County; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member, Kansas legislature 1856-1857; in 1859 joined the Pike's Peak gold rush and moved to Denver, Colo.; followed gold discoveries around the West; discovered silver instead and made several important strikes; settled in Leadville, Colo.; engaged in mining and mercantile pursuits; postmaster of Leadville 1878; mayor 1878-1879; treasurer of Lake County; lieutenant governor of Colorado 1879-1883; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry M. Teller and served from January 27 to March 3, 1883; was not a candidate for reelection; postmaster of Denver, Colo., from 1898 until his death on April 10, 1899; interment in Mount Calvary Cemetery; later reinterred in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Jefferson County, Colo.)
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