Langhorne Cowles Sias (born 1959) is an American politician who represented House District 27 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 ...

. A vacancy committee appointed Sias to the office after his predecessor resigned, and he was sworn into office on February 4, 2015. A Republican, he was subsequently elected to the office in the November, 2016 general election. Sias was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for

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and running mate of

Walker Stapleton Walker Stapleton (born April 15, 1974) is an American politician who served two terms as Colorado's State Treasurer from 2011 to 2019. Stapleton was the Republican nominee for Governor of Colorado in the 2018 election, which he lost to Democra ...

in the

2018 Colorado gubernatorial election The 2018 Colorado gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the next and the 43rd Governor of Colorado. Incumbent Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper was term-limited and could not seek ...

Education

Lang holds a J.D. from the

University of Michigan Law School The University of Michigan Law School (Michigan Law) is the law school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1859, the school offers Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Comparative Law (MC ...

, a Master of Science from the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 mill ...

, and a Bachelor of Arts from

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States, closely fol ...

. He has practiced law in the past.

Military service

Sias served in the United States Navy as a fighter pilot and

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instructor. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant colonel. He later served in the Air National Guard.

Personal

Sias lives in

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with his wife and three children. He works as a 777 pilot for FedEx.

2022 state treasurer campaign

In November 2021, Sias announced his candidacy for

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. On November 8, 2022, he lost to incumbent Democrat Dave Young in the

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References

External links

Official page
at the

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Campaign site
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