Lafe Pence

Lafe Pence

Lafayette "Lafe" Pence (born December 23, 1857 in Columbus , Indiana , †  October 22, 1923 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1893 and 1895 he represented the first constituency of the state of Colorado in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lafe Pence attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1877 the Hanover College in Indiana. After completing a law degree and being admitted to the bar in 1878, he began to work in this profession in Columbus. In 1879 he moved to Winfield , Kansas and in 1881 to Colorado, where he settled in Rico and worked as a lawyer.

Pence became a member of the Populist Party . In 1885 he was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives. From 1885 he was based in Denver , where he also worked as a lawyer. From 1887 to 1888, Pence served as a prosecutor in Arapahoe County . In the congressional elections of 1892 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first district of Colorado, where he succeeded Hosea Townsend on March 4, 1893 . But since he was not confirmed in the following elections, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1895 .

After his time in Congress, Pence moved to New York where he worked in the railroad business. He later returned to Denver, from where he went to San Francisco and then back to Washington. In all these cities he worked as a lawyer. Lafe Pence was also involved in mining in Colorado and Oregon . He died in Washington in October 1923 and was buried in Columbus, his birthplace.

Web links

• Lafe Pence in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Lafe Pence in the database of Find a Grave (English)