People

: George Edward Mackinnon; A Grand Junction High School graduate in the same class as Dalton Trumbo. He became a congressman and a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. He also served as the Attorney General for the State of Minnesota and a US representative for Minnesota. *Photograph from the U.S. House of Representatives.

: George F. Newton; George F. Newton was a rancher from De Beque, Colorado who partnered with Dr. W.A.E. de Beque to run the Shale Oil Syndicate, a company formed to locate and patent shale oil claims on Western Slope. He also served as the Garfield County Commissioner. According to the Daily Sentinel, he suffered with ill health near the end of his life and moved to the northwest United States around 1923 because of his condition. He passed away on October 20, 1927 in San Francisco at the age of 74.

: George Garrett; The first city manager of Grand Junction, Colorado, following the adoption of a city manager system of government in 1922. He served until May 1925. He resigned the post to become city manager of Rhinelander, Wisconsin.

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