Edward Keating
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Edward Keating was a U.S. Representative
United States House of Representatives
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 from Colorado
Colorado
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.

Born on a small farm near Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City, Kansas
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, Keating moved with his mother to Pueblo, Colorado
Pueblo, Colorado
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, in 1880.
He moved to Denver in 1889.
He attended the public schools.
He engaged in newspaper work as copyholder, reporter, city editor, and managing editor.
City auditor of Denver 1899-1901.
He served as member of the first convention elected to draft a charter for the city of Denver in 1903.
He was editor of the Rocky Mountain News
Rocky Mountain News
The Rocky Mountain News was a daily newspaper published in Denver, Colorado, United States from April 23, 1859, until February 27, 2009. It was owned by the E. W. Scripps Company from 1926 until its closing. As of March 2006, the Monday-Friday circulation was 255,427...

 from 1906 to 1911.
He served as president of the International League of Press Clubs in 1906 and 1907.
He served as president of the Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners 1911-1913.
Purchased the Pueblo Leader and moved to Pueblo in 1912.

Keating was elected as a Democrat
Democratic Party (United States)
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 to the Sixty-third
63rd United States Congress
- House of Representatives:*Democratic : 291 *Republican : 134*Progressive : 9*Independent : 1TOTAL members: 435-Senate:*President of the Senate: Thomas R. Marshall*President pro tempore: James P. Clarke-Senate:...

, Sixty-fourth
64th United States Congress
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, and Sixty-fifth
65th United States Congress
The Sixty-fifth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1917 to March 4, 1919, during the fourth and fifth...

 Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1919).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Sixty-fifth Congress).
He was an unsuccessful for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth
66th United States Congress
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 Congress.
He was editor and manager of Labor, official weekly newspaper of the associated railroad labor organizations, published in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
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, until his retirement in 1953.
He died in Washington, D.C.
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 on March 18, 1965.
He was interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Maryland.

In 1916, along with Robert Owen, passed a law called the Keating-Owen Act
Keating-Owen Act
The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 also known as Wick's Bill, was a statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to address the perceived evils of child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods manufactured by children in the United States, thus giving an expanded...

, a law barring the interstate commerce of goods produced by children. As both had grown up luxuriously, the act was very important to them. They both felt strongly about children's education, and wanted the them to receive the same type of schooling they got to experience.
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