{{Short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Thomas G. Currigan | image = | birth_date = {{birth date|1920|07|08}} | birth_place = Denver, Colorado, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2014|12|27|1920|07|08}} | death_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | order = 39th | office = Mayor of Denver | term_start = 1963 | term_end = December 31, 1968 | predecessor = Richard Batterton | successor = William H. McNichols, Jr. | party = | spouse = Frances R. Koetting<br>(m.1975–2013; her death)<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituaries: Frances R. "Fran" Currigan |url=http://www.amarillo.com/obituaries/2013-04-02/frances-r-fran-currigan |accessdate=19 September 2018 |publisher=Amarillo Globe-News |date=April 3, 2013}}</ref> | allegiance = {{flag|United States}} | branch = {{air force|United States}} | battles = | rank = Captain }}
'''Thomas Guida Currigan''' (July 8, 1920 – December 27, 2014) was Auditor of Denver, Colorado, from 1955 to 1963 and Denver Democratic Party Mayor from 1963 to 1968.<ref>Tom McGhee, "Currigan a Denver mayor in 1960s," ''Denver Post,'' 31 December 2014, p. 3A.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=History of the Office of the Mayor |url=https://www.denvergov.org/content/denvergov/en/mayors-office/about-the-office-of-the-mayor/history-of-the-office.html |website=City and County of Denver |accessdate=1 September 2018}}</ref>
Currigan was the grandson of Martin D. Currigan. He graduated from University of Notre Dame in 1941. He joined the military in 1942 during the World War II era and was discharged as a captain in the United States Air Force in 1946. He worked for Remington Rand Company.<ref>{{cite web| title=1955-1963: Thomas G. Currigan| publisher=Denver Auditor's Office| url=http://www.denvergov.org/Auditor/AboutUsResponsibilitiesandHistory/AboutUsResponsibilitiesandHistory6/tabid/378278/Default.aspx| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206152004/http://www.denvergov.org/Auditor/AboutUsResponsibilitiesandHistory/AboutUsResponsibilitiesandHistory6/tabid/378278/Default.aspx| archivedate=February 6, 2012}}</ref> He died on December 27, 2014, at a nursing home in Chicago, Illinois, aged 94.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McGhee |first1=Tom |title=Former Denver Mayor Tom Currigan dies at 94 |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2014/12/30/former-denver-mayor-tom-currigan-dies-at-94/ |accessdate=19 September 2018 |publisher=The Denver Post |date=December 30, 2014}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/curren-currin.html Curren to Currivan], the Political Graveyard * {{find a Grave|128052247}}
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