Greeley W. Whitford

Greeley Webster Whitford (June 5, 1856 – May 6, 1940) was a lawyer from Indiana State. After serving as Denver Assistant City Attorney and District Attorney from 1895 to 1896, he was appointed United States Attorney for Colorado by President William McKinley, and later served as an associate justice and chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Early life Whitford was born on June 5, 1856, in Rockville, Indiana to John Washington Whitford and Jane Harlan. After graduating from Iowa Wesleyan University, he gained admission to the bar in Iowa in 1882. He then practiced law in Bellingham, Washington from 1884 to 1887, when he moved to Denver, Colorado.

Career

Attorney and district judge Whitford was an Assistant City Attorney, and then a District Attorney.

Chief Justice of Colorado Supreme Court

In 1920, Whitford, then described as "the best known district judge in the state", successfully challenged incumbent justice Jason Garrigues for a seat as an associate justice on the Colorado Supreme Court.

On January 9, 1929, Whitford became Chief Justice, having been elected to that position by his fellow justices. In November 1930, Whitford was defeated in his bid for re-election by Democrat Ben C. Hilliard, losing by a narrow margin of 150,028 votes for Hilliard to Whitford's 148,989 votes.

Personal life He married Ida Spaulding from Mount Pleasant, Iowa in 1890. She was the daughter of Wesley Jepthah Spaulding and Martha Alvira Berry.

Greeley and Ida had three children together: Kent Shelton Whitford, Ruth Edna Whitford and Helen Jane Whitford. After Ida died in 1916, he remarried to his brother, Clay B. Whitford's widow, Edith F (Marshall) Whitford in 1917.

Whitford died May 6, 1940.