George John Kindel

George John Kindel ( born March 2, 1855 in Cincinnati, Ohio, † February 28, 1930 in Brush, Colorado ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Kindel attended the common schools and graduated before 1871 an apprenticeship as an upholsterer and mattress makers. In 1877 he moved to Denver, Colorado, where he worked in his learned professions. Later, he also worked as a cabinet maker.

Politically, Kindel member of the Democratic Party. Since 1910 he sat in the City Council of Denver. In the congressional elections of 1912 he was in the first district of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he broke on March 4, 1913 from Atterson W. Rucker. Since he resigned in 1914 to another candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1915.

In the congressional elections of 1914 he ran unsuccessfully as an independent candidate for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Then he retired from politics and returned to his private business. He died on 28 February 1930 following a traffic accident.

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