Governor William E. Sweet of Colorado defunded the Colorado Rangers.
The move was made to thwart Prohibition enforcement, even though Colorado had adopted prohibition (like marijuana prohibition) before the Federal Government had, as well as to prevent its use in mine disputes. They were officially disbanded in 1927, but thereafter became a reserve police force for Colorado.
Sweet was a Democrat from Chicago who came to Colorado with his parents as a small child. He was a investment banker by profession, and good at it. He retired from the occupation before entering politics in 1922 at age 54. As governor, he was a strong opponent of the Klu Klux Klan, which was strong in Colorado, and which he attributed his subsequent defeat in a reelection bid in 1925. He later moved to the second variant of the Progressive Party, the one that was formed by Robert LaFollette.
He died in 1942 at age 73.
Of note, my grandmother and grandfather, on my father's side, were married and living in Denver, Colorado at this time. My grandmother, of Irish extraction, was a lifelong Democrat.
The Colorado Rangers originally formed in 1861, modeled on the Texas Rangers.
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