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”.
Biography/WPA Writers' Project of Captain Don Francisco de la Mora y Ceballos, eighth governor of New Mexico. By Grace Meredith Field Worker Eighth Governor of New Mexico 1632‑1635 Sometime during the month of March 1632, Captain Don Francisco de la Mora y Ceballos arrived in Santa Fe from Mexico…
Biography/WPA Writers' Project of Admiral Don Phelipe de Sotelo Ossorio, the sixth governor of New Mexico. By Grace Meredith Field Worker WPA Biography Project Sixth Governor of New Mexico 1625 – 1629 On December 21st, 1625, Admiral Don Phelipe de Sotelo Ossorio arrived in Santa Fe and became the…
Don Juan de Eulate was the fifth governor of New Mexico. He was appointed to the office December 31st, 1617, but for reasons which are not stated in historical data referred to, did not start from Mexico City until March 1st, 1618. Don Juan de Eulate By Grace Meredith…
Figueroa, Luis de Guzman y Biography/WPA Writers' Project of Captain don Luis de Guzman y Figueroa, the fourteenth governor of New Mexico. By Grace Meredith Fourteenth Governor of New Mexico 1647‑1649 WPA Biography Project Captain don Luis de Guzman y Figueroa, the fourteenth governor of New Mexico reached…
General Don Juan Flore de Sierra y Valdes, eleventh governor of New Mexico, was appointed to office by the new viceroy, the Duque de Escalona, in Mexico City in 1641. Eleventh Governor of New Mexico 1641‑1641 WPA Biography Project General Don Juan Flore de Sierra y Valdés, eleventh governor…
The nineteenth governor of New Mexico, Captain don Diego Dionisio de Peñalosa Briceno y Berdugo, to give his full name, was born in Lima, Peru in the year 1624. By Grace Meredith Field Worker Nineteenth Governor of New Mexico 1661‑1664 WPA Biography Project The nineteenth governor of New Mexico,…
WPA Writers Project essay of Captain Don Bernardo Lopez de Mendizabal, eighteenth governor of New Mexico. By Grace Meredith, Field Worker WPA Biography Project Captain Don Bernardo Lopez de Mendizabal, eighteenth governor of New Mexico, left Mexico City for Santa Fe on December 24th, 1658 with the caravan…
Captain Don Juan Manso de Contreras was the seventeenth governor of New Mexico. It is assumed that he came from Mexico City to Santa Fe with the caravan of the Mission Supply Service of 1656. Captain Don Juan Manso de Contreras By Grace Meredith Seventeenth Governor of New…
In the last half of the seventeenth century, (c. 1664‑1680) Juan de Archuleta led a small military expedition northeast from New Mexico to bring back some Taos Indians who had fled to a spot in eastern Colorado afterwards known as El Cuartelejo—what seems to have been the first recorded…
Captain Don Juan Francisco de Treviño was the twenty‑fourth governor of New Mexico; and it is assumed that he come north with the caravans in 1675. By Grace Meredith Twenty‑fourth Governor of New Mexico 1675‑1677 WPA Biography Project Captain Don Juan Francisco de Treviño was the twenty‑fourth governor…
