Offered for sale is what appears to be a personally composed obituary in the form of a poem for Edward Prentiss Costigan (1874-1939).  From the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress:  "EDWARD PRENTISS COSTIGAN, a Senator from Colorado; born near Beaulahville, King William County, Va., July 1, 1864; moved to Colorado in 1877 with his parents, who settled in Ouray County; attended public schools; studied law; admitted to the bar in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1897; graduated from Harvard University in 1899; commenced the practice of law in Denver, Colorado., in 1900; began his political life as a Republican; one of the founders of the Progressive Party in Colorado in 1912; unsuccessful Progressive candidate for Governor of Colorado in 1912 and 1914; appointed a member of the United States Tariff Commission by President Woodrow Wilson in 1017; and served until his resignation in March 1928 [in protest of Calvin Coolidge's high tariffs]; resumed the practice of law in Denver, Colo.; affiliated with the Democratic Party in 1930; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1930 and served from March 4, 1931, to January 3, 1937; was not a candidate for renomination in 1936; retired from professional and political activities."  Not included in Costigan's Congressional biography but noteworthy, in the Senate Costigan co-sponsored  the Jones-Costigan amendment to the Sugar Act that protected the sugar industry, including sugar from Colorado beets.  It reformed the sugar industry.  With New York Democratic Senator Robert F. Wagner, Costigan sponsored a federal anti-lynching.  The bill received the support of many members in Congress but the bloc of Southern legislators managed to defeat it in the Senate.  Costigan was also an advocate for the United Mine Workers.  Included in this offering is a photocopy of an article from the Denver Express, March 2, 1916 concerning the trial of four members of the UMW who were accused of killing guard Major P. P. Lester during a 1914 coal miners' strike at Walsenburg, CO in which Costigan helped represent the defendants.

Offered for sale is Costigan's poem, "The lightning-Shattered Tree."  It appears to be his self-composed obituary.  The cover has two diagonal stains from the glue in the envelope is which it was included; a photograph of Costigan that was taped to the inside of the cover has separated and left tape stains; and there are a couple of check marks on the left side of the poem.  But a most interesting piece of Colorado memorabilia.  

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