Horace Tabor

Horace Austin Warner Tabor (* November 26, 1830 in Holland, Orleans County, Vermont, † April 10, 1899 in Denver, Colorado ) was an American politician of the Republican Party. January 27, 1883 to March 3, 1883, he sat for the U.S. state of Colorado in the U.S. Senate.

Steinmetz and Kaufmann

Tabor was born in the small town of Holland in Vermont. There he was apprenticed as a stonemason. At the age of 19 he left to be able to work as a stonemason in Maine and Massachusetts his home. In 1855, he then felt in the Kansas Territory, where he settled as a farmer near Manhattan. 1857 he moved because of love back to Maine. There he married Augusta Pierce. After the wedding, both moved together back to Tabor's farm. 1859 the couple moved then to Colorado, where she opened a shop in Buckskin Joe, now a ghost town. 1877 attracted the two of them to Leadville. There Tabor collected in 1878, the first political experiences as mayor.

Silver King

On May 3, 1878, the silver boom began in Colorado with the discovery of silver lodes in the vicinity of the Little Pittsburg mine. Tabor was co-owner of this mine and used the profit that the mine henceforth threw for further investment. 1878 Tabor candidate for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Colorado. After the successful election, he served under governors John Long Routt and Frederick Walker Pitkin. During his tenure, he was sent for a short time in the U.S. Senate as the successor of George M. Chilcott. The selected incumbent Thomas M. Bowen moved beginning in March 1883 then regularly in the Senate, Tabor different then off again. In 1883 he married Elizabeth McCourt then, from the couple had two children.

Last years and death

1884, 1886 and 1888 Tabor ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of Colorado. After the downturn of the silver boom Tabor lost some of its assets. In recent years, he retired into private life. 1899 Tabor died at an appendicitis in Denver.