# Tom Currigan

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{{Short description|American politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name        = Thomas G. Currigan
| image       =
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1920|07|08}}
| birth_place = [Denver, Colorado](/source/Denver%2C_Colorado), U.S.
| death_date  = {{death date and age|2014|12|27|1920|07|08}}
| death_place = [Chicago, Illinois](/source/Chicago%2C_Illinois), U.S.
| order       = 39th
| office      = Mayor of Denver
| term_start  = 1963
| term_end    = December 31, 1968
| predecessor = [Richard Batterton](/source/Richard_Batterton)
| successor   = [William H. McNichols, Jr.](/source/William_H._McNichols%2C_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](/source/Denver), Colorado, from 1955 to 1963 and Denver [Democratic Party](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States)) 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](/source/Martin_D._Currigan). He graduated from [University of Notre Dame](/source/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>

==References==
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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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Category:Mayors of Denver
Category:Colorado Democrats
Category:University of Notre Dame alumni
Category:United States Army Air Forces officers
Category:United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II

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