| LC control no. | no2008121750 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Chaffee, Jerome Bunty, 1825-1886 |
| Variant(s) | Chaffee, Mr. (Jerome Bunty), 1825-1886 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Colorado |
| Birth date | 1825-04-17 |
| Death date | 1886-03-09 |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Found in | Admission of Colorado as a state, 1874: p. 1 (Mr. Chaffee, from the Committee on the Territories) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. online, viewed Aug. 21, 2008 (Chaffee, Jerome Bunty, a Delegate from the Terr. of Colo. and a Senator from Colo.; b. Apr. 17, 1825; d. Mar. 9, 1886) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed September 26, 2022 (Chaffee, Jerome Bunty, a Delegate from the Territory of Colorado and a Senator from Colorado; born in Niagara County, N.Y., April 17, 1825; attended the public schools of Lockport, N.Y.; moved to Adrian, Mich., in 1844, where he taught school and clerked in a store; moved in 1852 to St. Joseph, Mo., and later to Elmwood, Kans., where he engaged in banking and the real-estate business; moved to the Territory of Colorado in 1860 and engaged in mining and stamp-mill operations at Lake Gulch, Gilpin County; member, Territorial house of representatives 1861-1863, and served in 1863 as speaker of the house; one of the founders of the city of Denver; president of the First National Bank of Denver 1865-1880; elected as a Republican Delegate to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875); upon the admission of Colorado as a State into the Union was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from November 15, 1876, to March 3, 1879; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman of the Republican State executive committee in 1884; died in Salem Center, Westchester County, N.Y., March 9, 1886; interment in Adrian Cemetery, Adrian, Lenawee County, Mich.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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