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Lydia Tague was elected four times as the County Judge in Eagle County, Colorado: 1912, 1915, 1918, 1921. In 1911 Tague was appointed to fill this position, previously held by her recently deceased husband, Patrick Tague. The following year she sought election to the position. A local newspaper supported her candidacy, reporting: "Her abilities as a judge are unquestioned by all of the attorneys who have had cases in her court, and there should be no hesitancy upon the part of the voters of the county in placing their mark of approval after her name for the position." Tague was considered fair in her rulings, which were supported by the state supreme court. Tague strongly supported temperance and a state prohibition law. The cases that she handled included disputes between sheep and cattle ranchers, criminal charges against miners, and enforcement of the state prohibition law (after 1916).
She was born in Colorado in 1868, the daughter of a "prominent Boulder county judge." In 1889 she married Patrick Tague, an educated Pennsylvania coal miner who had come to Colorado for his health, seeking silver. He was 17 years older than Tague, They lived in the "raucous" mining town of Red Cliff and had five children. Patrick Tague died on February 10, 1911. After Lydia Tague completed her terms as county judge in 1924 she took on the clerkship of the Fifth Colorado judicial district.
She was born in Colorado in 1868, the daughter of a "prominent Boulder county judge." In 1889 she married Patrick Tague, an educated Pennsylvania coal miner who had come to Colorado for his health, seeking silver. He was 17 years older than Tague, They lived in the "raucous" mining town of Red Cliff and had five children. Patrick Tague died on February 10, 1911. After Lydia Tague completed her terms as county judge in 1924 she took on the clerkship of the Fifth Colorado judicial district.
