Dwight P. Wilmot

District 3 Commissioner
May 1882 to January 1883 and 1894 to 1897

Republican

Born 1849, died 1935

Dwight P. Wilmot was appointed Commissioner by the governor in May 1882 to succeed his brother, resigned Commissioner Roswell O. Wilmot. He later won election as Commissioner in 1893 and served a full term. Wilmot was born in Deerfield, Illinois and came to Colorado in 1870. He operated freighting and mining businesses until 1875, when he settled in the mountains of Jefferson County and gave the Evergreen area its name. In 1891 Wilmot served in the State House of Representatives.