New Mexico - founded in 1598 as a province of the Spanish Vice Royalty of New Spain
- became part of Mexico in 1822.
It was occupied by U.S. forces in 1846 and formally ceded by Mexico in 1848 by the
Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo.
After a brief period of military rule it was organized as an U.S. Territory in 1850.
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(1) The original territory was enlarged in 1853 following the readjustment of
its southern frontier as a result of the so-called Gadsen purchase.
New Mexico reached its present day frontiers in 1863 after some northern
parts had been transferred to Colorado and its western part had become
the new Territory of Arizona.
(See here for more on Arizona and the Confederate intervention in the region
1861 - 1862).
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MILITARY ADMINISTRATORS
(subordinated to the War Department)
Military Governor
1847 - 1848 BrigGen. Sterling Price 1809 - 1867
Civil Governor
1847 - 1848 Donaciano Vigil* 1802 - 1877
Military and Civil Governors
1848 - 1849 LtCol. John MacRae Washington 1797 - 1853
1849 - 1851 LtCol. John Munroe 1796 - 1861
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TERRITORIAL OFFICERS
Territorial Governors
(Subordinated to the Department of State until 1873, afterwards to the Department
of the Interior)
1851 - 1852 James S. Calhoun 1802 - 1852
1852 Edwin Vose Sumner* 1797 - 1863
1852 John Greiner*
1852 - 1853 William Carr Lane 1789 - 1863
1853 - 1854 William Slueman Messervy*
1854 - 1857 David Meriwether 1800 - 1893
1857 - 1861 Abraham Rencher 1798 - 1883
1861 - 1865 Henry Connelly 1800 - 1866
1865 - 1866 William Frederick Milton Arny* 1813 - 1881
1866 - 1869 Robert Byington Mitchell 1823 - 1882
1869 - 1871 William Anderson Pile 1829 - 1889
1871 - 1875 Marsh Giddings 1816 - 1875
1875 William Gillet Ritch*
1875 - 1878 Samuel Beach Axtell 1819 - 1891
1878 - 1881 Lewis Wallace 1827 - 1905
1881 - 1885 Lionel Allen Sheldon 1831 - 1917
1885 - 1889 Edmund Gibson Ross 1826 - 1907
1889 - 1893 Le Baron Bradford Prince 1840 - 1922
1893 - 1897 William Taylor Thornton 1843 - 1916
1897 - 1906 Miguel Antonio Otero 1859 - 1944
1906 - 1907 Herbert James Hagerman 1871 - 1935
1907 - 1909 George Curry 1862 - 1948
1909 - 1912 William Joseph Mills 1849 - 1915
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REPRESENTATIVES TO THE U.S. CONGRESS
Territorial Delegates
1851 - 1853 Richard Hanson Weightman 1816 - 1861
1853 - 1856 José Manuel Gallegos 1841 - 1911
1856 - 1861 Miguel Antonio Otero 1829 - 1882
1861 - 1863 John Sebrie Watts 1816 - 1876
1863 - 1865 Francisco Perea 1830 - 1913
1865 - 1867 José Francisco Chaves 1833 - 1904
1867 - 1869 Charles P. Clever 1830 - 1874
1869 - 1871 José Francisco Chaves (2x)
1871 - 1873 José Manuel Gallegos (2x) 1815 - 1875
1873 - 1877 Stephen Benton Elkins
1877 - 1879 Trinidad Romero 1835 - 1918
1879 - 1881 Mariano Sabino Otero 1844 - 1904
1881 - 1884 Tranquilino Luna 1849 - 1892
1884 - 1885 Francisco Antonio Manzanares 1843 - 1904
1885 - 1895 Antonio Joseph 1846 - 1910
1895 - 1897 Thomas Benton Catron 1840 - 1921
1897 - 1899 Harvey Butler Fergusson 1848 - 1915
1899 - 1901 Pedro Perea 1852 - 1906
1901 - 1905 Bernard Shandon Rodey 1856 - 1927
1905 - 1912 William Henry Andrews 1846 - 1919
U.S. STATE OF NEW MEXICO
In 1912 New Mexico became a State of the Union.
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STATE OFFICERS
Governors
1912 - 1917 William C. McDonald 1858 - 1918
1917 Ezequiel Cabeza de Baca 1864 - 1917
1917 - 1919 Washington Ellsworth Lindsey 1862 - 1926
1919 - 1921 Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo 1859 - 1930
1921 - 1923 Merritt Cramer Mechem 1870 - 1946
1923 - 1925 James Fielding Hinkle 1864 - 1951
1925 - 1927 Arthur Thomas Hannett 1884 - 1966
1927 - 1931 Richard Charles Dillon 1877 - 1966
1931 - 1933 Arthur Seligman 1873 - 1933
1933 - 1935 Andrew W. Hockenhull 1877 - 1974
1935 - 1939 Clyde Tingley 1883 - 1960
1939 - 1943 John Esten Miles 1884 - 1971
1943 - 1947 John Joseph Dempsey 1879 - 1958
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