Dawson, Clyde C.

Black and white portrait of Clyde C. Dawson. Clyde Dawson was born in Iowa, and lived much of his life in Canon City, Colorado. He enrolled after high school at the University of Denver, but graduated with his law degree from the University of Michigan in 1888. He became a lawyer in Canon City in 1889, and later moved to Denver in 1910 for the benefits of living in a larger city. He represented many cases, some to the Supreme Court, and focused much of his time on irrigation law.