George Radcliffe Colton

George Radcliffe Colton ( born April 10, 1865 in Galesburg, Illinois, † April 6, 1916 in Washington DC ) was an American politician and from 1909 to 1913 governor of Puerto Rico.

Career

About the youth and education of George Colton nothing is handed down. He was born in Illinois and moved to Nebraska, where he entered the military service of the government later. From 1889 to 1890 he sat in the House of Representatives from Nebraska. During an uprising in the Philippines he was assigned as a lieutenant colonel of a unit from Nebraska there. In 1899 he was appointed deputy head of the customs authority in the port of Iloilo. He later became Head of Service of that authority. In 1905 he was commissioned as a colonel with the establishment of a customs office in the Dominican Republic. In 1907 he returned to the Philippines, where he managed the customs authorities in Manila. Two years later he returned to the U.S. mainland, where he worked on the revision of the customs laws of the Philippines.

In November 1909 Colton was appointed by President William Howard Taft as the successor to Regis Henri Post as the new Governor of Puerto Rico. This office he held until 5 November 1913. Thereafter, it took Arthur Yager. After the end of his time as governor to Colton retired to private life. He settled back in the United States and went down there by private businesses. George Colton died on April 6, 1916 in Washington at a tropical disease. He was married and had two sons.