Raymond Herbert Talbot (August 19, 1896 – January 30, 1955) was an American politician who served as the 27th Governor of Colorado for eleven days in 1937. Talbot, an electrical engineer, was elected to 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 distri ...

in 1926 and to the

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in 1928. In 1932, he was elected the 26th lieutenant governor as the

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of Edwin C. Johnson. Johnson resigned as governor on January 1, 1937, eleven days before the expiration of his term, to take his seat in the

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. Talbot was sworn in as governor to fill the eleven-day interim until the start of the term of newly elected governor

Teller Ammons Teller Ammons (December 3, 1895 – January 16, 1972) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 28th Governor of Colorado from 1937 to 1939. He was the first Colorado governor to be born in the state. Early life On December 3, ...

. After his brief term as governor, Talbot served as a city commissioner and postmaster of Pueblo, Colorado, and continued in office as president of the Colorado State Fair Commission (1931–1953). He married Juniatta L. Wilson and had two children. Talbot died on January 30, 1955, at the age of 58, and he is buried at the Mountain View Cemetery in Pueblo.

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State of Colorado biography
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Talbot, Ray Herbert 1896 births 1955 deaths Democratic Party members of the Colorado House of Representatives Democratic Party Colorado state senators Lieutenant governors of Colorado Democratic Party governors of Colorado Politicians from Chicago 20th-century members of the Colorado General Assembly