Atterson W. Rucker

Atterson Walden Rucker ( born April 3, 1847 in Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky; † July 19, 1924 in Jefferson County, Colorado ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1913 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his early youth came Atterson Rucker with his parents to Missouri, where he attended the public schools. Despite his youth, he took part on the side of the Confederacy in the Civil War. After studying law and his 1868 was admitted to the bar he began in Lexington (Missouri ) to work in his new profession. In 1873 he moved to Baxter Springs, Kansas, where he also practiced law. In 1879 he moved his residence and his practice to Leadville, Colorado. There, he joined in the mining business.

Between 1881 and 1882, Rucker judge in Lake County; In 1885 he moved to Aspen, where he still intense engaged in mining. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. As the candidate he was in 1908 in the first district of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. After a re-election in 1910 he was able to complete two terms in Congress between 4 March 1909 and 3 March 1913.

In 1912, Rucker was not nominated by his party for another term. After retiring from Congress, he practiced as a lawyer again. He moved his practice back to Denver. Atterson Rucker died in July 1924 in near Mount Morrison in Jefferson County in Colorado.