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John Hickenlooper, Narberth/Lower Merion Native Son, Quits Presidential Race

by Gerry August 24, 2019

Now Looks To Flip GOP-Held Colorado Senate Seat

John Hickenlooper Haverford School Eighth Grade

John Hickenlooper Later

John Hickenlooper announced his candidacy for the presidency on March 4. On August 15 he announced that he was out the race for president. On August 22 he announced that he was running for the U.S. Senate in his adopted state of Colorado.

From Rockland Road in Narberth to Kent Road in Wynnewood
250 Kent Road , Where John Third Grade Until he left to attend Wesleyan College

Hickenlooper lived on Rockland Road in Narberth. In third grade, shortly before his father died (at 40) of intestinal cancer), the family moved to 250 Kent Road. This was before Narberth Elementary School was a part of the Lower Merion School System (the didn’t take place until December of 1965), and as Hickenlooper explained in his autobiography, “Mom and Dad believed [Lower Merion] had better schools.” When the family moved to Wynnewood, Hickenlooper enrolled in the Penn Valley School. He recalls playing Little League Baseball for a team called The Wynnewood Warriors.

Apparently, Hickenlooper’s mother didn’t think that even the vaunted Lower Merion Schools were good enough for John. He went on graduate from the Haverford School.,

2007 – Burned His Bridges With Philly. Bragged he could name all the players on the 1964 Phillies, but who cares?

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