William Ellery Sweet

William Ellery Sweet ( born January 27, 1869 in Chicago, Illinois; † May 9, 1942 in Denver, Colorado ) was an American politician (Democratic Party) and from 1923 to 1925 the 22nd Governor of the State of Colorado.

Early years

Moved in 1872 Sweet William with his family to Colorado Springs, where he attended the public schools. In 1890 he graduated from Swarthmore College. After school he founded an investment firm in Denver. Through this company he and his family arrived very quickly to wealth, so that he could retire as early as 1922 from the business itself. It was not until this time, Sweet busy with politics. As a member of the Democratic Party, he was elected in 1922 as the new governor of his state, where he prevailed with 50:48 percent of the vote to Republican Benjamin Griffith. He had especially the support of farmers and laborers.

Governor of Colorado

Sweet took up his new post on January 9, 1923. In his two-year tenure there, as throughout the United States, an economic recovery that should continue for until 1929, and from the Colorado also benefited. At the same time, the influence of the Ku Klux Klan took at this time in Colorado greatly. Governor Sweet was a staunch opponent of the racist organization. That may have cost him his re-election in 1924.

Even after the end of his governorship Sweet remained politically active. In the years 1926 and 1936 he applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. In the 1930s, he was a supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This gave him a job with the National Recovery Administration, where he was responsible for public relations. Sweet William always had a sympathetic ear for social concerns. He has donated much of his fortune to social institutions. He died in May 1942. Joyeuse Fullerton with his wife he had four children.

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