Dean M. Gillespie

Dean Milton Gillespie ( May 3, 1884 in Salina, Saline County, Kansas; † February 2nd 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1944 and 1947 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Dean Gillespie attended the common schools and the Salina Normal University. Then he looked at 1900-1904 with livestock and other agricultural activities. In 1905 he moved to Denver, where he was in the decades that followed, among others, store clerk, sign makers and dealers. He also went into the emerging auto and oil business.

Politically, Gillespie member of the Republican Party. After the death of Congressman Lawrence Lewis, he was in the overdue election to succeed him in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. After he was confirmed at the regular elections of 1944, he could remain between 7 March 1944, and January 3, 1947 Congress.

In the 1946 elections, he was defeated by Democrat John A. Carroll. Thereupon Lewis retired from politics and returned to his own business interests. He died in February 1949 during a business trip in Baltimore and was buried in Denver.