Lafe Pence
Template:Short description Template:More footnotes Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Lafayette (Lafe) Pence (December 23, 1857 – October 22, 1923) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Colorado from 1893 to 1895.
Biography
Born in Columbus, Indiana, Pence attended the common schools. He was graduated from Hanover College in 1877. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1878 and practiced in Columbus, Indiana, until September 1879, when he moved to Winfield, Kansas. He moved to Rico, Colorado, in 1881 and continued the practice of law until 1884.
Career
He served as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives in 1885. He settled in Denver in 1885 and continued the practice of law. He served as prosecuting attorney for Arapahoe County in 1887 and 1888.
Congress
Pence was elected as a Populist to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress.
Later career
He moved to New York City and engaged in railroad work. He returned to Denver and from there moved to San Francisco, California, and subsequently to Washington, D.C., and continued the practice of law. He also engaged in hydraulic mining in Breckenridge, Colorado, and Portland, Oregon.
Death and burial
He died in Washington, D.C., October 22, 1923. He was interred in Garland Brook Cemetery, Columbus, Indiana.
Electoral history
Template:Election box winning candidate with party link no changeTemplate:Election box majority no changeTemplate:Election box total no changeTemplate:Election box gain with party link without swing| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Earl B. Coe | Script error: No such module "string". | 43.23% | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | John G. Taylor | Script error: No such module "string". | 5.50% | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | W.G. Sprague | Script error: No such module "string". | 2.15% | |
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Template:Election box winning candidate with party link no changeTemplate:Election box majority no changeTemplate:Election box total no changeTemplate:Election box gain with party link without swing| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Lafayette Pence (incumbent) | Script error: No such module "string". | 39.68% | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Robert H. Rhodes | Script error: No such module "string". | 2.86% | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | John T. Bottom | Script error: No such module "string". | 2.14% | |
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- 1857 births
- 1923 deaths
- People from Columbus, Indiana
- People's Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado
- Hanover College alumni
- 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives
- 19th-century members of the Colorado General Assembly