Colorado's first African-American speaker of the House, the grandson of a sharecropper, ended his historic term with the bang of a gavel at the end of the 2010 session of the General Assembly.

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Colorado's first African-American speaker of the House, the grandson of a sharecropper, ended his historic term with the bang of a gavel at the end of the 2010 session of the General Assembly. Terrance Carroll was appointed to his legislative seat when Peter Groff resigned to move to the Senate. When Carroll, a lawyer, ordained minister and former police officer, became speaker, Groff was Senate president. It was the first time in...