About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 19. Chapters: Arthur Cornforth, Barbara O'Brien (politician), David H. Nichols, Earl Cooley (politician), Edwin C. Johnson, Erastus Harper, Francis Patrick Carney, Frank Hayes (unionist), Frank L. Hays, Fred W. Parks, Gail Schoettler, George L. Brown, George Milton Corlett, George Stepham, Gordon L. Allott, Homer L. Pearson, Horace Tabor, James Pulliam, Jane E. Norton, Jared L. Brush, Jesse Fuller McDonald, Joe Rogers, John Charles Vivian, John David Vanderhoof, Joseph Garcia (United States politician), Lafayette Head, Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, Mark Anthony Hogan, Mike Callihan, Moses E. Lewis, Nancy E. Dick, Norman H. Meldrum, Peter W. Breene, Ray Herbert Talbot, Robert F. Rockwell, Robert Lee Knous, Samuel H. Cassidy, Stephen R. Fitzgarrald, Sterling Byrd Lacy, Ted L. Strickland, Warren A. Haggott, William Eugene Higby, William Grover Smith, William H. Meyer (Colorado), William Story (attorney). Excerpt: Jane E. Norton (born Jane Ellen Bergman, October 12, 1954 in Grand Junction) was the 46th Lieutenant Governor of the State of Colorado and an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Senator Michael Bennet in the 2010 election. She lost the nomination to current Weld County District Attorney and Tea Party favorite Ken Buck. Norton became the first executive director for the Denver Police Foundation on February 1, 2007, an organization created to enhance public safety and law enforcement in the Denver community. Norton is the daughter of Elinor Pitman Bergman, a retired Grand Junction teacher and native of Pueblo, and Walter F. "Bus" Bergman, a native of Denver and retired Mesa State College coach. Born and raised in Grand Junction, Norton began teaching middle school in Fort Lupton after graduating from Colorado State University in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science with distinction in health sciences. She also has a Master's of Science in Management degree from Regis University, Denver. Before joining the Owens Administration, Norton worked as a regional director in the US Department of Health and Human Services during the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations. She has also served in the Colorado House of Representatives, filling the remainder of an unexpired term from mid-1986 to January 1987. Prior to her election as Colorado's Lieutenant Governor, Norton was appointed Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) by Governor Bill Owens, serving in that capacity from 1999-2002. As such, she had regulatory and programmatic responsibilities including bioterrorism preparedness; disease prevention and epidemiology; health facilities; family and community health services; emergency medical services; air and water quality protection; hazardous waste and solid waste management; and consumer protection. She also created the Office of Suicide Prevention, with an emphasis on teen suicide prev
