Awards & Recognition
★TIME Magazine: One of America's Five Best Big-City Mayors (2005)
★Governing Magazine: Public Official of the Year (2005)
★National Trust for Historic Preservation Award
★Humane World Action Fund: 100+ score and 'leader' designation (2025)
Notable Facts
→Co-founded Wynkoop Brewing Company in 1988, one of the first brewpubs in the U.S.
→Served as Mayor of Denver (2003-2011) and Governor of Colorado (2011-2019)
→Currently U.S. Senator from Colorado since 2021
→Author of memoir 'The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics' (2016)
→First professional geologist to become a governor in U.S. history
→First brewer to become governor since Sam Adams in 1792
→Ran for U.S. President in 2020 Democratic primary
→Started as petroleum geologist before becoming entrepreneur and politician