Politics (from Greek politikos “of, for, or relating to citizens”) as a term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the corporate, academic, and religious segments of society. It consists of “social relations involving authority or power” and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply policy.[1]
Modern political discourse focuses on democracy and the relationship between people and politics. It is thought of as the way we “choose government officials and make decisions about public policy”.
By Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint A major player in the re-conquest of New Mexico in the 1690s under Diego de Vargas was Antonio de Valverde Cosío. He became interim governor of the province in 1715 and was named to the post in his own right in 1718….
ELEVENTH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, ———- Convened at Santa Fe on the last Monday in December, 1861 ———- COUNCIL. PRESIDENT. —Fecundo Pino, of Santa Fe County. CLERK.—Santiago Baca. SERGEANT-AT-ARMS.—Andres Salazar, MORA.—Tomas Lucero. TAOS.—Pascual Martinez, Antonio Jose Martinez. Rio ARRIBA.—Francisco Salazar, Francisco A. Mestcas. SANTA FE.—Fecundo Pino. SAN MIGUEL.—Prudencio Lopez, Antonio Bacay…
TENTH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, ———- Convened at Santa Fe on the first Monday of December, 1860. ———- COUNCIL. PRESIDENT.—Jose G. Gallegos, of San Miguel County CLERK.—Richard H. Tompkins. SERGEANT-AT-ARMS.—Jesus Ma. Bazan. MORA.—Felipe Romero. TAOS.—Sautiago Valdez, Antonio Jose Ortiz. Rio ARRIBA.—Antonio Ma. Pacheco, Pedro Batista Gallegos. SANTA FE.—Merrill Ashurst. SAN MIGUEL.—Jose…
1 5 1881 “There Was a Time and it Was Tingley’s” * By Suzanne Stamatov Clyde Tingley was born in Madison County, Ohio on 5 January 1881, the son of George and Belle Tingley. He studied at local public schools and sought employment as a railroad construction worker and…
Governor Fernando de Villanueva by Rick Hendricks, Ph.D Fernando de Villanueva y Armendaris was born in San Sebastián in the Spanish Basque province of Guipúzcoa to Fernando de Villanueva y Armendaris and Clara de Irigoyen. Nothing is known of his childhood, but he was probably still a teenager when…
by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint The decades of the 1660s and 1670s were ones of looming catastrophe for the Spanish province of New Mexico. There had been repeated disputes between Franciscan clergy and royal governors over use of Indian labor and conflicting attitudes toward native religious practice….
10 17 1859 Born in Missouri, Otero’s parents took him at the age of two back to their home in New Mexico, crossing the plains in a stagecoach. He was later to return east to be educated at St. Louis University and the University of Notre Dame. He became…
1550 Juan de Oñate was born circa 1550 in the frontier settlement of Zacatecas, Mexico, the son of Cristóbal de Oñate and Catalina de Salazar. His father was a prominent Zacatecas mine owner and encomendero. Juan de Oñate married Isabel de Tolosa Cortés Moctezuma, a descendant of the famous…
In late January 1610, Don Pedro de Peralta reached New Mexico’s first capital city, La Villa de San Gabriel, located on the west bank of the Rio Grande, opposite San Juan Pueblo. Peralta’s origins remain obscure but he was appointed by the viceroy to succeed Juan de Oñate, New…
by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint Diego Dionisio de Peñalosa Briceño y Berdugo, formerly Spanish provincial governor of New Mexico, ended his days in France, far from his one-time jurisdiction where he offered to lead an armed force to seize New Mexico and all of northern New Spain…
