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This is a list of some notable people who have lived in the U.S. state of Colorado. It includes people who were born, raised, or have significant relations with the state. Coloradans have been prominent in many fields, including literature, entertainment, art, music, politics, and business.
Washington Irving wrote about him, making him famous in his lifetime. The Bonneville Salt Flats are named after him. Brown, John: 1817–1889 1841–1849 United States: Fur trapper, trader, rancher, and merchant in and around Pueblo, Colorado. Brown, Kootenay: 1839–1916 1862–1910 Ireland Richard Campbell 1824– United States
She helped formerly enslaved people become settled during Colorado's Gold Rush. She was known as the 'Angel of the Rockies' and made her mark as "Colorado's first black settler and a prosperous entrepreneur". [1] Brown, born in Virginia in 1800, [a] moved to Logan County, Kentucky, with her family. She married another enslaved person when she ...
Chief Ouray and Chipeta. Ancestral Puebloans — A diverse group of peoples that lived in the valleys and mesas of the Colorado Plateau; Apache Nation — An Athabaskan-speaking nation that lived in the Great Plains in the 18th century, then migrated southward to Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, leaving a void on the plains that was filled by the Arapaho and Cheyenne from the east.
He was born into slavery and came to Colorado in 1859, during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush (1858–1861). He became a successful businessman in Denver. Joseph H. Stuart (1854–1910) 1891 From the British West Indies, he settled in Colorado and in 1891 was the second black lawyer that practiced law. John Taylor: 1865 (after)
List of people from Westminster, Colorado; List of people from Wheat Ridge, Colorado; List of first women lawyers and judges in Colorado; List of Colorado Women's Hall of Fame honorees; Colorado Women's Hall of Fame
Edwin C. Johnson (1884–1970), U.S. Senator from Colorado, 26th and 34th governor of Colorado [383] # Charles West Kendall (1828–1914), U.S. Representative from Nevada [ 384 ] # John Kerry (1943– ), U.S. Secretary of State since 2013, former long-time U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1985–2013), and 2004 Democratic nominee for president
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