Stephen R. Fitzgarrald was the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado

Lieutenant Governor of Colorado

The lieutenant governor of Colorado is the second-highest-ranking member of the executive department of the Colorado state government, below only the Governor of Colorado. The lieutenant governor, who acts as governor in his absence and succeeds to the governorship in case of vacancy, is elected on...

, serving from 1909 to 1915 under John F. Shafroth

John F. Shafroth

John Franklin Shafroth was a United States Representative and Senator from Colorado. Born in Fayette, Missouri, he attended the common schools and graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1875. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1876 and commenced practice in Fayette...

 and Elias M. Ammons

Elias M. Ammons

Elias Milton Ammons , originally a Republican, was the elected Democratic 19th Governor of Colorado from 1913 to 1915. Born in 1860 in Macon County, North Carolina, he is perhaps best remembered for ordering National Guard troops into Ludlow, Colorado during the Ludlow Massacre...

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Early life

Stephan and his father George Fitzgarrald came to Colorado prospecting

Prospecting

Prospecting is the physical search for minerals, fossils, precious metals or mineral specimens, and is also known as fossicking.Prospecting is a small-scale form of mineral exploration which is an organised, large scale effort undertaken by mineral resource companies to find commercially viable ore...

 in 1878. During a brief period of mining in Leadville he developed an interest in law. Shortly after he returned to Iowa to study law.

Political career

In 1881, he settled permanently in Colorado. First living in Ophir, he moved to Telluride

Telluride, Colorado

The town of Telluride is the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Colorado. The town is a former silver mining camp on the San Miguel River in the western San Juan Mountains...

 in 1883. On March 22, 1885, Stephan married Letha L. McConnell. In 1915, he moved again to the Silverton

Silverton, Colorado

The town of Silverton is a Statutory Town that is the county seat of, and the only incorporated municipality in, San Juan County, Colorado, United States. Silverton is a former silver mining camp, most or all of which is now included in a federally designated National Historic Landmark District,...

-Ouray

Ouray, Colorado

The historic City of Ouray is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Ouray County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 813 at the U.S. Census 2000 and 1,000 as of the U.S. Census 2010...

 district and later to Denver. Served as City

City attorney

A city attorney can be an elected or appointed position in city and municipal government in the United States. The city attorney is the attorney representing the city or municipality....

, County

County attorney

A county attorney in many areas of the United States is the chief legal officer for a county or local judicial district. It is usually an elected position...

, and Deputy District Attorney. Stephan was a member of the Colorado House of Representatives between the years of 1893 and 1895.

Sponsored Legislation

Stephen sponsored legislation

Legislation

Legislation is law which has been promulgated by a legislature or other governing body, or the process of making it...

 of benefit to people of Colorado, dealing with deed of trust sales

Trust deed (real estate)

In real estate in the United States, a trust deed or deed of trust is a deed wherein legal title in real property is transferred to a trustee, which holds it as security for a loan between a borrower and lender...

, attachment suits, and excessive tax penalties.