Edward Keating

Edward Keating

Edward Keating (July 9, 1875 - March 18, 1965) was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.

Born on a small farm near Kansas City, Kansas, Keating moved with his mother to Pueblo, Colorado, in 1880.He moved to Denver in 1889.He attended the public schools.He engaged in newspaper work as copyholder, reporter, city editor, and managing editor. City auditor of Denver 1899-1901.He served as member of the first convention elected to draft a charter for the city of Denver in 1903.He was editor of the Rocky Mountain News from 1906 to 1911.He served as president of the International League of Press Clubs in 1906 and 1907.He served as president of the Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners 1911-1913. Purchased the Pueblo Leader and moved to Pueblo in 1912.

Keating was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1919).He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Sixty-fifth Congress).He was an unsuccessful for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress.He was editor and manager of Labor, official weekly newspaper of the associated railroad labor organizations, published in Washington, D.C., until his retirement in 1953.He died in Washington, D.C. on March 18, 1965.He was interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Maryland.

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