Don Byron Colton was a United States. Representative from Utah.
Education
He attended the public schools and the Uintah Academy, Vernal, Utah. He was graduated from the commercial department of Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, in 1896. He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1905.
Career
He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Vernal, Utah. Colton was receiver of the United States land office at Vernal 1905–1914. He served as delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1904, 1924, and 1928 as well as a delegate to the Republican State conventions 1914–1924.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for Utah Governor in 1940.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator in 1934. Utah House of Representatives
Congress
Colton was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1933).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Elections Number. 1 (Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses), Committee on Public Lands (Seventieth and Seventy-first Congresses).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress.
He engaged in teaching in 1898, 1901, and 1902. Colton resumed the practice of law in Vernal, Utah. He moved to Salt Lake City in 1937 and continued the practice of law.
He also engaged in farming, ranching, sheep and stock raising, and other business enterprises.
Colton died in Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1, 1952. Colton had been serving in this position since he had taken over from J. Wyley Sessions in 1938.
Colton was interred in Wasatch Lawn Cemetery.
Membership
Colton served as member of the Utah House of Representatives in 1903. He also served as member of the State senate 1915–1917.