Representative | Democrat | DEMPSEY, JOHN JOSEPH, a Representative from New Mexico; born in White Haven, Luzerne County, Pa., June 22, 1879; attended the grade schools; engaged as a telegrapher; held various positions with the Brooklyn Union Elevator Co.; vice president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. until 1919; entered the oil business in Oklahoma… Continue reading John Dempsey
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Bill Richardson
Representative | Democrat | RICHARDSON, BILL, a Representative from New Mexico; born in Pasadena, Los Angeles County, Calif., November 15, 1947; graduated from Middlesex High School, Concord, Mass., 1966; B.A., Tufts University, Medford, Mass., 1970; M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford, Mass., 1971; aide to United States Representative Frank Bradford Morse of Massachusetts,… Continue reading Bill Richardson
Manuel Lujan, Jr.
Representative | Republican | LUJAN, MANUEL, JR., a Representative from New Mexico; born on a small farm near the Indian Pueblo of San Ildefonso, N.Mex., May 12, 1928; attended grade school and junior high of Our Lady of Guadalupe; graduated from St. Michael’s High School, Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1946; attended St. Mary’s College, San Francisco,… Continue reading Manuel Lujan, Jr.
Dennis Chavez
Senator | Democrat | CHAVEZ, DENNIS, a Representative and a Senator from New Mexico; born in Los Chavez, Valencia County, N.Mex., April 8, 1888; attended the public schools; worked as a grocer’s clerk as a boy and later in the engineering department of the city of Albuquerque; travelled to Washington in 1917 with Senator Andrieus… Continue reading Dennis Chavez
Pete Domenici
Senator | Republican | DOMENICI, PETE VICHI, a Senator from New Mexico; born in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, N.Mex., May 7, 1932; graduated, University of New Mexico 1954; graduated, Denver University Law School 1958; admitted to the New Mexico bar in 1958 and commenced practice in Albuquerque; elected to Albuquerque City Commission 1966, chairman (ex-officio mayor)… Continue reading Pete Domenici
Joseph Montoya
Lt. Governor | Democrat | MONTOYA, JOSEPH MANUEL, a Representative and a Senator from New Mexico; born in Penablanca, Sandoval County, N.Mex., September 24, 1915; attended Regis College, Denver, Colo.; graduated from Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C., in 1938; admitted to the bar in 1939 and commenced the practice of law in Santa Fe,… Continue reading Joseph Montoya
Bruce King
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Rufus Holman
Treasurer | Republican | HOLMAN, RUFUS CECIL, a Senator from Oregon; born in Portland, Oreg., October 14, 1877; attended the public schools; school teacher 1896-1898; engaged in agricultural pursuits, steamboating, bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing 1899-1910; in 1910 engaged in the manufacture of record books and paper boxes and in the ice and cold storage business… Continue reading Rufus Holman
Mark Hatfield
Secretary of State | Republican | HATFIELD, MARK ODOM, a Senator from Oregon; born in Dallas, Polk County, Oreg., July 12, 1922; graduated, Willamette University 1943; completed graduate degree at Stanford University 1948; served in the United States Navy in the Second World War; associate professor of political science 1949-1956 and dean of students 1950-1956,… Continue reading Mark Hatfield
Isaac Homer van Winkle
Attorney General | Republican | Van Winkle was born in Linn County, Oregon, near the community of Halsey, to Isaac Newton Van Winkle and Elizabeth Ann Pearl. Isaac graduated from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, in 1898 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1901, he graduated from Willamette University College of Law, where he… Continue reading Isaac Homer van Winkle