 From 1891-93 he served as Mayor of Denver, during this time he became known as the Iron Handed Mayor, due to his strict enforcement of the law.Unfortunately his time in office became tarred by the disastrous redevelopment of the disused City Cemetery (now Cheesman Park).Problems arose when an unscrupulous undertaker, contracted by the City of Denver to remove the long buried corpses and relocate them to another more suitable site, was discovered to be stuffing adult corpses into child sized coffins and other nefarious activities.