Table of Colorado legislators from southwestern Colorado

State Senate (years served, name) from Congressional District 6		Colorado House of Representatives (years served, name), from House District 59
1875	Adam B. Cooper
1876-1878	William A. Hamill	1876-1878	John Moss
1876-1880	Albert Johnson	1879-1880	Daniel L. Sheets
1881-1884	Henry S. Kearney	1881-1882	Timothy J. Mclure
1881-1884	Henry S. Kearney	1883-1884	L. J. McCloskey
1885-1892	Mason B. Carpenter	1885-1886	John A Porter
		1887-1888	William R. Winters
		1889-1890	John G. Price
		1891-1892	James W. Hanna
1893-1894	Allen T. Gunnell	1893-1894	Samuel E. Herr
1985-1898	Austin Blakey	1885-1986	Joseph W. Wallace
		1897-1898	Andrew R. Lewis
1899-1902	Joel W. Smith	1899-1902	Blair Burwell
1903-1905	Jesse F. McDonald	1903-1904	Arthur L. Pace
		1905-1906	William W. McEwen
		1907-1908	T. C. Graden
		1909-1914	George Weaver
		1915-1916	John Henry Jr. McDevitt
		1917-1922	Thomas H. Kelley
		1923-1924	Andrew F. Hood
		1925-1928	Ellis W. Newland
		1929-1930	Helan Beatty Noland
		1931-1932	John W. Waters
		1933-1938	T. E. Childress
1939-1942	Price J. Briscoe	1939-1940	James B. Decker
		1941-1946	Tom Orlo Kimball [his papers are at the Center of Southwest Studies]
1947-1950	Price J. Briscoe	1947-1948	Galen L. Kleckner
1951-1962	Harry M. Locke	1949-1952	Bruce R. Sullivan
1963-1964	George L. Brown	1953-1964	Arthur M. Wyatt
1965-1966	Roger Cisneros	1965	R. E. O’Brain
		1966	Thomas V. Neal
1967-1968	William L. Armstrong	1969-1972	Harold R Koster
		1973-1976	Roy Estelle Wells
1979-1982	Paul William Powers	1977-1982	Robert Eugene DeNier [his papers are at the Center of Southwest Studies]
1983-1986	Dan D. Noble [his papers are at the Center of Southwest Studies]	1983-1986	Ben Nighthorse Campbell [his papers are at the Center of Southwest Studies]
1987-1990	Robert Eugene DeNier [his papers are at the Center of Southwest Studies]	1987-1998	Jim Edward Dyer [his papers are at the Center of Southwest Studies]
1991-1994	Samuel H. Cassidy
1995-1998	Ben Lewis Alexander
1999-2001	Jim Edward Dyer [his papers are at the Center of Southwest Studies]	1999-2006	Mark Richard Lawson
2001-	Jim Isgar	2007-	Ellen Roberts

Historical note regarding State Senate (District 6): The sixth congressional district came into being in 1874. Prior to 1874, this district was a part of the ninth or Guadalupe District (as stated in the state constitution), two weeks later renamed the Conejose District.

Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us/lcs/leghist.nsf?OpenDatabase List compiled by Meredith Provera, Archival Student Assistant at the Delaney Library, Center of Southwest Studies, February 2008

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