Jackson Orr (September 21, 1832 – March 15, 1926) was a lawyer, Civil War officer, businessman, and two-term Republican U.S. Representative from western Iowa. Continuing westward, he spent the last five decades of his life in Colorado.
Orr was not a candidate for renomination in 1874, but instead moved to Silverton, a mining town in a newly opened area of southwestern Colorado Territory, in 1875.
In Colorado, Orr was elected county judge and served for three years. He moved to Denver, Colorado, and engaged in the practice of his profession and also in the real estate business. In 1882, President Chester A. Arthur appointed him as one of three commissioners to implement a treaty between the United States and the Ute tribe.[3] He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Colorado's at-large Congressional seat in 1884.[4] He served as president of the Denver Fire and Police Board in 1893 and 1894.
He died in Denver on March 15, 1926. He was interred in Fairmount Cemetery in Denver.
References
^"From Montana," Cedar Falls Gazette, 1868-07-24 at p. 2.
^"Capt. J. Orr Nominated," Cedar Falls Gazette, 1870-07-22 at p. 2.
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