Atterson W. Rucker
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Atterson Walden Rucker was a U.S. Representative
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 from Colorado
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Biography

Born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky
Harrodsburg, Kentucky
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, Rucker moved in early youth with his parents to Missouri
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. He attended the common schools. He served four years in the Confederate States Army
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 during the Civil War
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. He studied law, was admitted to the bar
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 in 1868 and commenced practice in Lexington, Missouri
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, the following year. He moved to Baxter Springs, Kansas
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, in 1873 and resumed the practice of law. He moved to Leadville, Colorado
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, in 1879 and continued the practice of his profession. He was also interested in mining
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. He served as judge of the court of records of Lake County
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 in 1881 and 1882. He moved to Aspen, Colorado
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, in 1885 and became largely interested in the development of mining projects.

Rucker was elected as a Democrat
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 to the Sixty-first
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 and Sixty-second
62nd United States Congress
- House of Representatives :* Democratic : 230 * Republican : 162* Socialist : 1* Independent : 1TOTAL members: 394-Senate:* President: James S...

 Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1913). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1912. He returned to Colorado and settled in Denver
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, where he resumed the practice of his profession. He died near Mount Morrison, Colorado, on July 19, 1924. He was interred in the Littleton Cemetery, Littleton, Colorado
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