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The self-proclaimed Provisional Government of the Territory of Jefferson was organized on November 7, 1859. Jefferson Territory included all of present-day Colorado, but extended about 3 miles (5 km) farther east, 138 miles (222 km) farther north, and about 50 miles (80 km) farther west. The territory was never recognized by the federal government in the tumultuous days before the American Civil War. The Jefferson Territory had only one governor, Robert Williamson Steele, a pro-union Democrat elected by popular vote. He proclaimed the territory dissolved on June 6, 1861, several months after the official formation of the Colorado Territory, but only days after the arrival of its first governor.
Governors of the Territory of Colorado
The Territory of Colorado was organized on February 28, 1861, from parts of the territories of New Mexico, Utah, and Nebraska, and the unorganized territory that was previously the western portion of Kansas Territory.
- William Gilpin (25 March 1861 - 26 March 1862)
- John Evans (26 March 1862 - 17 October 1865)
- Alexander Cummings (17 October 1865 - 24 April 1867)
- Alexander Cameron Hunt (24 April 1867 - 14 June 1869)
- Edward M. McCook (14 June 1869 - 1873)
- Samuel Hitt Elbert (4 April 1873 - 1874)
- Edward M. McCook (19 June 1874 - 29 March 1875)
- John Long Routt (29 March 1875 - 1 August 1876)
List of Governors of the State of Colorado
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Governors of the State of Colorado
To serve as Governor, one must be at least 30 years old, be a citizen of the United States, and have been a resident of the state for at least two years prior to election. The state constitution of 1876 originally called for election of the governor every two years, with their term beginning on the second Tuesday of the January following the election. An amendment passed in 1956, taking effect in 1959, increased terms to four years. Originally, there was no term limit applied to the governor; a 1990 amendment allowed governors to succeed themselves only once. There is however no limit on the total number of terms one may serve as long as one who has served the two term limit is out of office for four years.
Should the office of governor become vacant, the lieutenant governor becomes governor. If both the offices governor and lieutenant governor are vacant, the line of succession moves down through the senior members of the state senate and state house of representatives of the same party as the governor. The lieutenant governor was elected separately from the governor until a 1968 amendment to the constitution made it so that they are elected on the same ticket.
- John Long Routt
- Frederick Walter Pitkin
- James Benton Grant
- Benjamin Harrison Eaton
- Alva Adams
- Job Adams Cooper
- John Long Routt
- Davis Hanson Waite
- Albert Washington McIntire
- Alva Adams
- Charles Spalding Thomas
- James Bradley Orman
- James Hamilton Peabody
- Jesse Fuller McDonald
- Henry Augustus Buchtel
- John F. Shafroth
- Elias M. Ammons
- George Alfred Carlson
- Julius Caldeen Gunter
- Oliver Henry Shoup
- William Ellery Sweet
- Clarence Morley
- Billy Adams
- Edwin C. Johnson
- Ray Herbert Talbot
- Teller Ammons
- Ralph Lawrence Carr
- John Charles Vivian
- William Lee Knous
- Walter Walford Johnson
- Daniel I. J. Thornton
- Edwin C. Johnson
- Stephen L. R. McNichols
- John Arthur Love
- John David Vanderhoof
- Richard Lamm
- Roy Rorner
- Bill Owens
- Bill Ritter
- John Hickenlooper