Gordon L. Allott

The Honorable Gordon Llewellyn Allott
United States Senator from Colorado
In office January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1973
Preceded by	Edwin C. Johnson
Succeeded by	Floyd K. Haskell
33rd Lieutenant Governor of Colorado
In office 1950–1955
Governor	Walter Walford Johnson Daniel I.J. Thornton
Preceded by	Charles P. Murphy
Succeeded by	Stephen L. R. McNichols
Personal details
Born	(1907-01-02)January 2, 1907 Pueblo, Colorado
Died	Englewood, Colorado
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	University of Colorado-Boulder
Military service
Service/branch	United States Army Air Corps
Years of service	1942-1946
Rank	Major
Battles/wars	World War II

Gordon Llewellyn Allott (January 2, 1907 – January 17, 1989) was a Republican American politician. Born in Pueblo, Colorado, Allott graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1927 and from its law school in 1929. Allott was also an athlete in his youth, winning the 440 yd hurdles at the 1929 United States championships. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced practice in Pueblo. He moved to Lamar, Colorado in 1930 and continued practicing law.

Allott was the county attorney of Prowers County, Colorado in 1934 and from 1941 to 1946. He was also the director of the First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Lamar from 1934 to 1960. He became Lamar's city attorney in 1937, and served in this position until 1941.

During World War II, Allott served as a major in the United States Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1946. After the war he became a district attorney in the fifteenth judicial district from 1946 to 1948. He was the vice chairman of the Colorado Board of Paroles from 1951 to 1955, and he served as the 33rd Lieutenant Governor of Colorado from 1951 to 1955 under Democratic Governor Walter Walford Johnson and Republican Governor Daniel I.J. Thornton.

Allott was elected to the United States Senate in 1954. He was reelected in 1960 and again in 1966, and served from January 3, 1955 to January 3, 1973. There he was Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee. Allott died in Englewood, Colorado, and was interred in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado.

Paul Weyrich and George Will worked on his Senate staff.

See also

• List of Chairpersons of the College Republicans

Sources

• Gordon L. Allott at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives.

External links

• Find a Grave (burial site)

Political offices
Preceded by Charles P. Murphy	Lieutenant Governor of Colorado 1950–1955	Succeeded by Stephen L.R. McNichols
United States Senate
Preceded by Edwin C. Johnson	U.S. Senator (Class 2) from Colorado 1955–1973 Served alongside: Eugene D. Millikin, John A. Carroll, Peter H. Dominick	Succeeded by Floyd K. Haskell