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William Ellery Sweet

William Ellery Sweet (27 January 1869-9 May 1942) was the Democratic Governor of Colorado from 9 January 1923 to 13 January 1925, succeeding Oliver Henry Shoup and preceding Clarence Morley.

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William Ellery Sweet was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1869, and his family moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1872. He started an investment banking firm in Denver before entering politics with the Democratic Party. He won most of his support from the state's farmers and laborers and was a staunch opponent of the Ku Klux Klan, which influenced his defeat at the hands of Clarence Morley in 1924. In the final years of his life, he supported the Progressive Party and even supported Herbert Hoover's bid for President, and he died in 1942.

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