Prowers-Pueblo-Arapahoe County CO Archives Biographies.....Allott, Gordon Llewellyn 1907 - 1989
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ALLOTT, Gordon Llewellyn, 1907 - 1989)
Senate Years of Service: 1955-1973 
Party: Republican 

ALLOTT, Gordon Llewellyn, a Senator from Colorado; born in Pueblo, Colo.,
January 2, 1907; attended the public schools of Pueblo, Colo.; graduated from
the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1927 and from its law school in 1929;
admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law in Pueblo, Colo.;
moved to Lamar, Colo., in 1930 and continued practicing law; county attorney of
Prowers County, Colo., in 1934 and 1941-1946; director, First Federal Savings &
Loan Association of Lamar, Colo. 1934-1960; city attorney, Lamar, Colo.
1937-1941; during the Second World War served as a major in the United States
Army Air Corps 1942-1946; district attorney, fifteenth judicial district
1946-1948; vice chairman State Board of Paroles 1951-1955; lieutenant governor
of Colorado 1951-1955; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in
1954; reelected in 1960 and again in 1966, and served from January 3, 1955, to
January 3, 1973; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1972; chairman,
Republican Policy Committee (Ninety-first and Ninety-second Congresses); died in
Englewood, Colo., January 17, 1989; interment in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colo. 

Bibliography
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives.

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