Dalton Valette is an internationally published writer and historian. He serves as the Treasurer for the Boulder County Democratic Party, the Co-Chair of his hometown Historical Commission, and served as the Chair of the Home Rule Commission for Superior, Colorado.

In 2024, Dalton launched the Dag Hammarskjöld Scholarship at his alma mater, Drew University, to support students participating in the university’s Semester at the United Nations.

He publishes daily on his presidential history Instagram, The President Guy, and writes longer form essays on Medium along with having his work published in Out Magazine, Salon, The Daily Camera, and the Colorado Sun along with other publications.

He has been charged by lions, rhinos, hippos, and baboons in Africa, has caught swordfish and sharks in the Caribbean and a 300-pound freshwater stingray in Paraná River, and been accused of being a Russian sniper in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia.

Dalton is represented for his fiction and non-fiction writing by Paula Munier at Talcott Notch Literary Services.

Dalton Valette of Superior, one of 400,000-plus Coloradans who are part of the LGBTQ+ community, says “I’m confident that we will be able to get through this,” referring to concerns he and his peers have about the current political and legal climate. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
— Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933