Gordon L. Allott

Gordon L. Allott

Gordon Llewellyn Allott (born January 2, 1907 in Pueblo , Colorado , † January 17, 1989 in Englewood , Colorado) was an American politician ( Republican Party ). He was lieutenant governor in the state of Colorado and later represented this in the US Senate .

After attending school in his hometown of Pueblo, Gordon Allott enrolled at the University of Colorado at Boulder . There he graduated in 1927 before taking his legal exam at the college's law school in 1929 . In the same year he was admitted to the bar, whereupon he practiced as a lawyer first in Pueblo and after moving from 1930 in Lamar . In 1934, Allott first served as district attorney in Prowers County ; he held this post again from 1941 to 1946. In the meantime he acted as a trial lawyer for the city of Lamar between 1937 and 1941. There he was also active from 1934 to 1960 as director of the First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Lamar .

During World War II , Allott served in the United States Army Air Corps , the forerunner of the US Air Force . He was a member of the armed forces from 1942 to 1946 and held the rank of major . After the end of the war he worked again as a lawyer and was from 1946 to 1948 public prosecutor in the 15th legal district. From 1951 to 1955 he was vice chairman of the Board of Paroles of Colorado; during the same period he held the post of lieutenant governor of Colorado under Governor Dan Thornton .

While US Senator Edwin C. Johnson successfully sought Thornton's successor as governor, Allott succeeded in turn to win Johnson's mandate in the Senate in Washington, DC . After his election he took his seat from January 3, 1955; in 1960 and 1966 he was re-elected. In 1972 he was finally defeated by the Democrat Floyd K. Haskell , after which he had to leave Congress on January 3, 1973. From 1969 to 1973 he served in the Senate as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee , a committee that serves as a kind of internal think tank for the parties in Congress. His staff in the Senate included Paul Weyrich , co-founder of the Heritage Foundation , and George Will, two later prominent journalists.

Allott died in Englewood in 1989 and was buried in Denver .

Web links

• Gordon L. Allott in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Gordon L. Allott in the database of Find a Grave (English)