Terry Considine

Considine was born in San Diego as the 4th of 11 children and was raised on a cattle ranch in Southern California.[2] At age 13, he left California to attend the Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts; he graduated in 1965.[3]

In 1969, he graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and, in 1971, he received a Juris Doctor, also from Harvard University.[4]

He initially received a student deferment from the Vietnam War and was later disqualified for service because of a bad back.[3]

In 1975, he founded The Considine Companies, a property-management firm that specialized in troubled real estate.[3] In 1981, he moved to Colorado.[3] In 1981, he acquired the El Cortez Hotel for $6 million in partnership with Bass Brothers Realty Corporation. The hotel was sold in 1987.[5] In 1987, he acquired 75% of McDermott, Stein and Ira Marketing Management (MSI), the largest fee-operated apartment management company in Denver.[6]

In 1994, along with associates Steve Ira, Peter Kompaniez, and Robert Lacey, he formed Aimco, which became a public company via an initial public offering.[6]

In 2017, Considine was elected to the Colorado Business Hall of Fame,[7]

In 2020, he was elected to the Colorado Apartment Hall of Fame.[8]

In 2019, Considine was awarded an honorary degree from Colorado Christian University.[9]

He was given the Adam Smith Award in October 2019 by Economic Literacy Colorado.[10]

He is a co-founder and member of the board of directors of Club for Growth, a conservative organization.[11]

He is also a member of the board of directors of the Bradley Foundation[12] and Intrepid Potash.[13]

In 1981, Considine moved to Colorado, where he entered politics through his father-in-law, Bo Callaway.

In 1986, Considine ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination to the United States Senate.[14] His campaign adviser was Fox News executive Roger Ailes. The campaign was thrown into controversy after he called immigrants from Latin America "wetbacks". He then embarked on a $500,000 television advertising campaign.[15]

From 1987 to 1992, he was a member of the Colorado Senate.[16] He was the primary organizer of an initiative that led to Colorado being the first state to impose term limits on the governor and state legislature.[3] He left the state Senate early in 1992 to pursue the open seat in the United States Senate created by the decision of Democrat Tim Wirth to forgo a bid for a second term.[3] Considine was defeated in the 1992 general election by Democrat Ben Nighthorse Campbell.[17]

Considine and his wife Betsy Callaway Considine provide charitable support, primarily to education and faith-based causes, including Compositive Primary, a workplace primary school on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado.[19]

Considine and his wife have established the Considine Family Foundation. In 2017, it endowed a Harvard Law School professorship in honor of Antonin Scalia.[20]