Governors of New Mexico Territory
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This is a list of governors of New Mexico Territory:
| Name | Party | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Bent | Not Affiliated?1 | 1846-18472 |
| James S. Calhoun | Whig | 1851-18523 |
| William Carr Lane | Whig | 1852-1853 |
| David Meriwether | Democrat | 1853-1857 |
| Abraham Rencher | Democrat | 1857-1861 |
| Henry Connelly | Republican | 1861-18664 |
| Robert Byington Mitchell | Democratic | 1866-1869 |
| William Anderson Pile | Republican | 1869-1871 |
| Marsh Giddings | Republican | 1871-1875 |
| Samuel Beach Axtell | Republican | 1875-18785 |
| Lew Wallace | Republican | 1878-1881 |
| Lionel Allen Sheldon | Republican | 1881-1885 |
| Edmund G. Ross | Democrat | 1885-1889 |
| L. Bradford Prince | Republican | 1889-1893 |
| William Taylor Thornton | Democrat | 1893-1897 |
| Miguel A. Otero | Republican | 1897-1906 |
| Herbert James Hagerman | Republican | 1906-1907 |
| George Curry | Republican | 1907-19106 |
| William J. Mills | Republican | 1910-1912 |
[edit] See also
- New Mexico
- New Mexico Territory
- List of Governors of New Mexico
- Governors of Arizona Territory
- Spanish Governors of New Mexico
| 1 The Political Affiliation of Charles Bent is unknown (I cannot find it anywhere) | |||||
| 2 Stephen W. Kearny declared New Mexico a territory in 1846 and installed Charles Bent as Governor. Congress revoked Kearny's declaration in 1847, thus New Mexico had no Governor from 1847 to 1851 | |||||
| 3 James Calhoun resigned in 1852 to return to his native state of Georgia | |||||
| 4 The territory broke into two, and then three during Connelly's tenure due to the civil war and administrative problems (see: Arizona Territory and Arizona Territory (CSA)) | |||||
| 5 Samuel Axtell was suspended by the Secretary of the Interior for misconduct in 1878 | |||||
| 6 George Curry resigned in 1910 to be a framer in the New Mexico Constitutional Convention |
