Denver is a consolidated city and county,the capital,and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census,a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. It is the principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood metropolitan statistical area,the most populous metropolitan statistical area in Colorado and the first city of the Front Range Urban Corridor.
Denver International Airport,locally known as DIA,is an international airport in the Western United States,primarily serving metropolitan Denver,Colorado,as well as the greater Front Range Urban Corridor. At 33,531 acres,it is the largest airport in the Western Hemisphere by land area and the second largest on Earth,behind King Fahd International Airport. Runway 16R/34L,with a length of 16,000 feet,is the longest public use runway in North America and the seventh longest on Earth. The airport is 25 miles (40 km) driving distance northeast of Downtown Denver,19 miles (31 km) farther than the former Stapleton International Airport,the facility DEN replaced:the airport is actually closer to the City of Aurora than central Denver,and many airport-related services,such as hotels,are located in Aurora.
John Long Routt was an American politician of the Republican Party. Born in Eddyville,Kentucky,he served as the first and seventh governor of Colorado from 1876 to 1879 and 1891 to 1893. He also served as mayor of Denver,Colorado from 1883 to 1885. He died in Denver,Colorado.
Federico Fabian Peña is an American politician and attorney who served as the 12th United States secretary of transportation from 1993 to 1997 and the 8th United States secretary of energy from 1997 to 1998,during the presidency of Bill Clinton. He previously served as the 41st mayor of Denver from 1983 to 1991.
Cornelius Kingsland Garrison was an American steamboat captain,shipping agent,shipbuilder,capitalist,and politician. He served as the 4th Mayor of San Francisco from 1853 until 1854.
The Government of Denver makes up the public sector of the City and County of Denver,Colorado.
Bert Stiles was an American author of short stories who was killed in action during World War II while serving as a fighter pilot in the US Army Air Forces.
Thomas Guida Currigan was Auditor of Denver,Colorado,from 1955 to 1963 and Denver Democratic Party Mayor from 1963 to 1968.
Phillip French II was the 27th Mayor of New York City from 1702 to 1703.
Barney Baxter in the Air is an American comic strip by Frank Miller. It started its run on September 30,1935,for the Denver's Rocky Mountain News. Starting on December 7,1936,it was syndicated by King Features. Barney Baxter was an "adventure strip" involving heroic exploits centering on aviation.
Wynne Edwin Baxter FRMS FGS was an English lawyer,translator,antiquarian and botanist,but is best known as the coroner who conducted the inquests on most of the victims of the Whitechapel Murders of 1888 to 1891 including three of the victims of Jack the Ripper in 1888,as well as on Joseph Merrick,the "Elephant Man".
Robert Walter Speer was elected mayor of Denver,Colorado three times. He served two four-year terms in office from 1904 to 1912. He died from Influenza,early on in the worldwide epidemic of that year on May 14,1918,while halfway through a third term in office that had started in 1916.
William Duncan Baxter was a businessman,politician,and the Mayor of Cape Town,South Africa,from 1907 to 1908. The theatre,generally known as "The Baxter",a performing arts complex in Rondebosch,a suburb of Cape Town,was named in his honour.
Joseph E. Bates was an American politician who served on the city council and as mayor.
T. J. Stiles is an American biographer who lives in Berkeley,California. His book The First Tycoon:The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt won a National Book Award and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. His book Custer's Trials:A Life on the Frontier of a New America received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History.
The 2011 Denver mayoral election took place on May 3 and June 7,2011,to elect the Mayor of Denver. It led to a run-off election on June 7,2011,which was won by Michael Hancock.
Michael B. Hancock is an American author and politician who served as the 45th mayor of Denver,Colorado from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,he was in his second term as the Denver City Councilor from the 11th district at the time he was elected to the mayorship.
George Stiles was a politician and merchant who served as the fourth mayor of Baltimore,in the Democratic-Republican Party,from 1816 to 1819. He served one full term before resigning from his second term,the second resignation of a Baltimore mayor. It is likely that Stiles resigned as a result of bad health,as he died several months later. Stiles died on January 16,1819.
The 2023 Denver mayoral election was held on April 4,2023 to elect the mayor of Denver,Colorado,with a runoff held on June 6. The election was officially nonpartisan and was held concurrently with elections for the Denver City Council,as well as city auditor and city clerk and recorder. Incumbent Democratic mayor Michael Hancock was term-limited and could not seek a fourth term in office. A historic field of seventeen candidates filed to run in the race to succeed Hancock.
