Milestones Icon: Bob Beauprez

Bob Beauprez is a Colorado native who has scored a trifecta of sorts – holding jobs as a rancher, banker and congressman.

He was raised on a third-generation dairy farm in Lafayette where the family sold Holstein cattle sold all over the world. He spent 20 years working with his parents and brother on the farm.

The family’s farm land near U.S. Highway 287 and Baseline Road later was sold and developed as the Indian Peaks Golf Course and 1,500 homes in the surrounding neighborhood.

After selling the farm, Beauprez and his wife, Claudia, bought an interest in a small local bank,…