J. Quigg Newton

J. Quigg Newton

36th Mayor of Denver
In office 1947–1955
Preceded by	Benjamin F. Stapleton
Succeeded by	Will Nicholson
Personal details
Born	(1911-08-03)August 3, 1911 Denver, Colorado
Died	April 4, 2003(2003-04-04) (aged 91) Colorado

James Quigg Newton Jr. (August 3, 1911 – April 4, 2003) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1947 to 1955.

Newtwon was born in Denver.^[1] His father was a businessman in Denver.^[2] He was educated in Denver and then studied at Yale Law School.^[1] He worked for the Denver law firm of Lewis and Grant before founding his own law firm.^[1] His firm merged with Lewis & Grant in 1947 to form Lewis, Grant, Newton, Davis & Henry, which later became Lewis, Grant & Davis, and then Davis Graham & Stubbs. His colleague and Yale classmate Richard Davis married his sister Nancy.^[2]

Newton served as a legal officer in the US Navy in the Second World War.^[1] He married Virginia Shafroth in 1942;^[1] she was the granddaughter of John F. Shafroth who served as US Senator and Governor of Colorado.^[2] They had four daughters.^[1]

In 1947, aged 35, he stood for the office of mayor, and defeated the incumbent, Benjamin F. Stapleton, who first became mayor in 1923.^[2] Newton was the first mayor of Denver to have been born in the city.^[1] He was reelected in 1951, but stood down in 1955.

After leaving office as Mayor, and spending time as a vice-president of the Ford Foundation, he was president of the University of Colorado from 1956 to 1963.^[2] He served on the Republican National Committee.^[1]^[3] He was president of the Commonwealth Fund in New York from 1963 to 1976, and then spent time in California.^[1] He returned to practice law at Davis Graham & Stubbs from 1981 to his death in 2003.^[2]

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Mayor James Quigg Newton, Jr. Papers, WH1327". Western History Collection, The Denver Public Library. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Here Lies Colorado: Fascinating Figures in Colorado History, Richard E. Wood, p.241-246
↑ "History of the Office". Denver Office of the Mayor. Retrieved February 26, 2014.

Mayors of Denver, Colorado

Moore Cook Steck Brendlinger Clark DeLano Clayton Stiles Harper Bates Case Barker Buckingham Stiles Sopris Morris Routt Bates Lee Londoner Rogers Van Horn McMurry Johnson Wright Speer Arnold Perkins Sharpley Speer Mills Bailey Stapleton Begole Stapleton Newton Nicholson Batterton Currigan McNichols Peña Webb Hickenlooper Vidal Hancock

Leaders of University of Colorado Boulder

Presidents	Sewall (1877–1887) Hale (1887–1892) Baker (1892–1914) Farrand (1914–1919) Norlin (1919–1939) Stearns (1939–1953) Darley (1953–1956) Newton (1956–1963) Smiley (1963–1969) Wilson (1969) Thieme (1969–1974)

Chancellors	Crowe (1974–1976) Berry (1976–1977) Nelson (1979–1982) Lipetz (1981–1982) Shull (1982–1985) Baughn (1985–1986) Corbridge (1986–1994) Park (1994–1997) Byyny (1997–2005) Distefano (2005–2006) Peterson (2006–2009) DiStefano (2009– )

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