Allen Thomson Gunnell (January 20, 1848 – March 21, 1907) was an American lawyer, judge, and state legislator in

Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the wes ...

. Gunnell was born in

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where he began his legal career. He settled in Colorado in 1875. He served in the

Colorado House of Representatives The Colorado House of Representatives is the lower house of the Colorado General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Colorado. The House is composed of 65 members from an equal number of constituent districts, with each distr ...

and Colorado Senate. He was a lawyer and represented owners of mining companies. The

Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum is located at 215 S. Tejon Street in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The granite building with a domed clock tower was the El Paso County Courthouse building from 1903 to 1973. The museum, which moved to this locat ...

has an oil painting of him.

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Allen Thomson Gunnell Findagrave entry
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