Keating, Edward

Keating, Edward, a Representative from Colorado; born in Kansas City, Kans., on July 9, 1875; his father having died, he moved with his mother to Pueblo, Colo., in 1880; moved to Denver in 1889; attended the public schools; engaged in newspaper work as copyholder, reporter, city editor, and managing editor; city auditor of Denver 1899-1901; member of the first convention elected to draft a charter for the city of Denver in 1903; editor of the Rocky Mountain News 1906-1911; president of the International League of Press Clubs in 1906 and 1907; president of the Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners 1911-1913; purchased the Pueblo Leader and moved to Pueblo in 1912; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; editor and manager of Labor, official weekly newspaper of the associated railroad labor organizations, published in Washington, D.C., where he resides.