Greeley W. Whitford

Greeley Webster Whitford (June 5, 1856 – May 6, 1940) was a lawyer from Indiana State. After serving as Denver Assistant City Attorney and District Attorney from 1895 to 1896, he was appointed United States Attorney for Colorado by President William McKinley, and later served as an associate justice and chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. Early life Whitford was born on June 5, 1856, in Rockville, Indiana to John Washington Whitford and Jane Harlan. After graduating from Iowa Wesleyan University, he gained admission to the bar in Iowa in 1882. He then practiced law in Bellingham, Washington from 1884 to 1887, when he moved to Denver, Colorado. Career Attorney and district judge Whitford was an Assistant City Attorney, and then a District Attorney.