Lafe Pence

Lafayette " Lafe " Pence ( born December 23, 1857 in Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, † October 22, 1923 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1895 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lafe Pence attended the public schools of his home and then to 1877 the Hanover College in Indiana. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1878 admitted to the bar he began in Columbus to work in his new profession. In 1879 he moved to Winfield in Kansas and in 1881 to Colorado, where he settled down in Rico and worked as a lawyer.

Pence was a member of the Populist Party. In 1885 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Colorado. Since 1885 he has been resident in Denver, where he also worked as a lawyer. From 1887 to 1888 pence worked as a district attorney in Arapahoe County. In the congressional elections of 1892, he was elected in the first district of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Hosea Townsend on March 4, 1893. Since he was not confirmed in subsequent elections, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1895.

After his time in Congress Pence moved to New York where he worked in the railroad business. Later, he initially returned to Denver, where he went to San Francisco and finally back to Washington. In all these cities, he worked as a lawyer. Lafe Pence was also engaged in mining in Colorado and Oregon. He died in October 1923 in Washington, and was buried in his birthplace of Columbus.