Lafe Pence Explained

Lafe Pence
State:Colorado
Term Start:March 4, 1893
Term End:March 3, 1895
Preceded:District created
Successor:John F. Shafroth
Office2:Member of the Colorado House of Representatives
Term2:1885
Birth Name:Lafayette Pence
Birth Date:23 December 1857
Birth Place:Columbus, Indiana, U.S.
Death Place:Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting Place:Garland Brook Cemetery, Columbus, Indiana, U.S.
Party:Populist
Alma Mater:Hanover College
Profession:Politician, lawyer

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.