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”.
5 9 1813 By Tom Todd William Frederick Milton Arny was born on May 9, 1813 in the District of Columbia. He was the son of Joseph Arny from Krummenau, St. Gallen, Switzerland and Elizabeth Hyde (Joseph's first wife) from England. He was well educated for the day, and…
Born in Nelson County, KY.; educated in county schools; attended medical school of the Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky.; was graduated in 1828 and moved to Liberty, Clay County, Mo.; later in same year moved to Chihuahua, Mexico; married in Mexico in 1838; in 1848 moved to Santa Fe,…
1802 Born perhaps in Georgia in 1802, although the details of his early life are uncertain. Calhoun was married in December 1822 to Caroline Anne Simmons of South Carolina, by whom he was the father of Martha Ann and Carolina Louisa. After the death of his first wife in…
Sometime during the month of March 1632, Captain Don Francisco de la Mora y Ceballos arrived in Santa Fe from Mexico City, and became the eighth governor of New Mexico. Old Spanish documents recently brought to light and translated, show that in so far as the antagonism between state…
1916 By Michael Ann Sullivan Jack M. Campbell, served two terms as governor of New Mexico from 1963–1966. Campbell worked to increase money for education at all levels—often exhorting that education was the cornerstone for future progress in New Mexico. Campbell also stressed long-term economic development with an emphasis…
Bernardo López de Mendizábal By Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint Beginning as early as the 1540s, wars in Europe and the Mediterranean proved financially ruinous for the Spanish monarchy. Castile and the empire it controlled lurched from fiscal crisis to crisis throughout the end of the sixteenth…
On Saturday, January 6, 1912, at 1:35 p.m. in Washington D.C., President William H. Taft signs the proclamation making New Mexico the 47th state of the United States of America. More than 61 years had passed since the first statehood convention had been held in New Mexico on June…
On the Feast of the Ascension, April 30, 1598, Juan de Oñate took possession with the following excerped words: In the name of the Most Holy Trinity, and the undivided Eternal Unity, Deity and Majesty, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, three persons in one sole essence, and one and…
The Social Life of a Controversial Proclamation, 1980-1988 By Aimee V. Garza On Good Friday, 28 March 1986, Governor Toney Anaya, issued a proclamation declaring the state of New Mexico, the nation’s first, “State of Sanctuary” for refugees fleeing the devastating civil wars in Central America. The announcement came…
4 10 1827 By William H. Wroth Lew Wallace (1827-1905) served as territorial governor of New Mexico from 1878 to 1881. Wallace was born in Brooksville, Indiana, on April 10, 1827, and moved to Indianapolis in 1837 when his father David Wallace was elected governor of Indiana. With the…
