Edward Keating (1875-1965), born in Kansas City, was a newspaper editor of the Rocky Mountain News and city auditor in Denver, Colorado. In 1911, he became president of the State Board of Land Commissioners of Colorado and, in 1912, was elected U.S. Representative from Colorado. In Congress, he forced a congressional investigation of the great strike in the coal mines of Southern Colorado. He was an advocate of social and labor reform legislation, in particular the first Federal Child Labor law, a Minimum Wage law for women and children, the Adamson Eight-Hour law, and the reclassification of salaries for Federal employees, the beginning of social security in this country. In 1919, Keating became manager of the Plumb Plan League, formed to secure public ownership of the railroads. As a result, he established the national weekly newspaper for railroad labor organizations, Labor, which he managed until 1953. Keating married Margaret Sloan Medill, a newspaper woman, in 1907. She died in 1939. Two years later, he married Eleanor Mary Connolly, daughter of a noted Dubuque, Iowa, family. He died on March 18, 1965 in Washington, D.C. at the age of 89.
From the description of Edward Keating papers, 1900-1964. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 71753075
