Gordon L. Allott

Gordon Llewellyn Allott ( born January 2, 1907 in Pueblo, Colorado, † January 17, 1989 in Englewood, Colorado ) is an American politician ( Republican). He was deputy governor in the state of Colorado and took it later in the U.S. Senate.

After attending school in his hometown of Pueblo, Gordon Allott wrote to the University of Colorado, Boulder. There he made his degree in 1927, before 1929 at the Law School of the University obtained his law degree. In the same year he was admitted to the bar, after which he practiced first in Pueblo and after a move from 1930 in Lamar as a lawyer. 1934 Allott officiated for the first time as a district attorney in Prowers County; this position he held again from 1941 to 1946. In the meantime, he served 1937-1941 as a trial attorney of the city Lamar. He was also active as a director of First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Lamar from 1934 to 1960.

During the Second World War Allott served in the United States Army Air Corps, the forerunner of the U.S. Air Force. He was a member of the armed forces from 1942 to 1946 and held the rank of Major. After the war he worked again as a lawyer and was 1946-1948 prosecutor in the 15th district legal. From 1951 to 1955 he sat as a Deputy Chairman of the Parole Board ( Board of Paroles ) of Colorado; In the same period he held the office of Lieutenant Governor of Colorado under Governor Dan Thornton.

While Senator Edwin C. Johnson successfully sought to Thornton's successor as governor, succeeded Allott again, Johnson's mandate in the Senate in Washington DC to win. After his election, he took his seat from 3 January 1955 in the years 1960 and 1966 he succeeded each re-election. Finally in 1972 he was defeated by Democrat Floyd K. Haskell, and he had to leave the Congress on January 3, 1973. From 1969 to 1973 he had acted as chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, a committee which serves as a kind of internal think tank of the parties in Congress. To his staff in the Senate included with Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, and George Will later two prominent journalists.

Allott died in 1989 in Englewood and was buried in Denver.