Albert McIntire explained

Albert Wills McIntire
Order:9th
Office:Governor of Colorado
Term Start:January 8, 1895
Term End:January 12, 1897
Lieutenant:Jared L. Brush
Predecessor:Davis H. Waite
Successor:Alva Adams
Birth Date:January 15, 1853
Birth Place:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Death Place:Colorado Springs, Colorado
Party:Republican

Albert Wills McIntire (January 15, 1853 – January 31, 1935) was an American Republican politician. He was the ninth Governor of Colorado from 1895 to 1897. In 1896 Governor McIntire sent the Colorado National Guard to Leadville due to violence at the Coronado Mine during a strike by the Western Federation of Miners.

Early in 1896, McIntire rejected a last-minute insanity defense appeal of the Park County rancher Benjamin Ratcliff, who murdered three members of his local school board with whom he had quarreled over the education of this three children. After McIntire refused to intervene, Ratcliff was hanged at the Colorado State Penitentiary at Cañon City. He claimed that he had committed the murders to uphold the honorable reputation of his family.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Laura King Van Dusen, "Benjamin Ratcliff: Park County Pioneer, Civil War Veteran, Triple Murderer; What Happened and Why", Historic Tales from Park County: Parked in the Past (Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2013),, pp. 127-134.