Costigan-Wagner Bill was a founding member of the Progressive Party in Colorado in 1912.
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15 Facts About Costigan-Wagner Bill
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Costigan-Wagner Bill studied law and was admitted to the bar in Salt Lake City in 1897.
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Costigan-Wagner Bill began a fight for honest elections, which lasted over a decade.
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Costigan-Wagner Bill fought for a local option law as legal advisor, which was sustained in the Colorado Supreme Court.
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Costigan-Wagner Bill litigated freight rate cases before the Interstate Commerce Commission, representing Arizona commercial organizations and the Denver Chamber of Commerce.
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Costigan-Wagner Bill was an attorney for the United Mine Workers of America in 1914 during a congressional investigation into the Colorado coal strike.
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Costigan-Wagner Bill was elected to the US Senate as a Democrat in 1930.
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Costigan-Wagner Bill believed that he would lose the support of the white voters in the South by approving it and lose the 1936 presidential election.
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Costigan–Wagner Costigan-Wagner Bill received support from many members of Congress but the Southern bloc managed to defeat it in the Senate.
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Costigan-Wagner Bill married a fellow high school classmate, Mabel Cory on June 12,1903.
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Costigan-Wagner Bill was involved in church, educational, and community affairs.
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Costigan-Wagner Bill was an expert on Sunday school primary work and was a lecturer and story-teller.
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Costigan-Wagner Bill campaigned for child labor law, particularly interested in prohibiting the practice of using children in sugar beet fields.
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Costigan-Wagner Bill was interested in the plight of foreign-born individuals in labor practices.
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Costigan-Wagner Bill died on January 17,1939 and was buried at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver.
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