Life in east central Delphus Emory Carpenter is known as the “Father of Interstate River Compacts.” His parents, Leroy and Martha Carpenter, were among the first settlers in Greeley with the Union Colony.
CAROTHERS, ROBERT E. CARPENTER. Delphus E. Carpenter (–) was the Commissioner of Interstate Streams for the State of Colorado at a time when Western States' water rights were becoming a legal battleground, and became the primary driver behind the Colorado River Compact of
Colorado Magazine - January: The Papers of Delph E. Carpenter and Family consists of documents dated to , with the bulk falling from to The focus of the collection is Delph Carpenter's work on interstate river compacts (primarily the Colorado River Compact) and legal cases (primarily Wyoming vs. Colorado).
Delph Carpenter, born in Greeley In Carpenter’s biography, Tyler speculates that the negotiations with Davis on the La Plata River proved the concept for the Upper and Lower Basin split at Lee Ferry. Following approval by the Colorado and New Mexico state legislatures, as well as the U.S. Congress, the La Plata River Compact was signed by President Coolidge in January
Carpenter, Delph. 25:157, 168 n. Delph Carpenter, a small town water lawyer who became a national statesman of rivers. Architect of the "compact idea" for setting interstate water allocation disputes, Carpenter was born to a nineteenth century pioneering family in Horace Greeley's Union Colony, founded in
"Ibid. Delph Carpenter is said Carpenter, Delph E. was born on May 13, in near Greeley, Colorado, United States. Son of Leroy S. and Martha Allen (Bennett) Carpenter. Student literature department of Denver, , law department, , Bachelor of Laws, Doctor of Laws, from University of Colorado,
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Key to equitable allocation of the West's most precious resource—water—the compact clause of the U.S. Constitution was first applied to rivers in the s, an idea conceived and promoted by Greeley water lawyer Delph Carpenter. The Biographical files contain information Delphus E. Carpenter (–) was Colorado’s commissioner of interstate streams during a time when water rights were a legal battleground for western states. A complex, unassuming man as rare and cunning in politics and law as the elusive silver fox of the Rocky Mountain West, Carpenter boldly relied on negotiation instead of endless litigation to forge agreements among states first.