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Biography of Benigno Hernandez. HERNANDEZ, BENIGNO CARDENAS: Born in Taos, N. Mex., February 13, 1862; attended common and private schools; clerk in a general merchandise establishment in Taos County from 1880 to 1889; engaged in the general merchandising and stock‑raising business; moved to Lumberton in 1896 and engaged in…
Senate Years of Service: 1949-1973 Party: Democrat ANDERSON, Clinton Presba, a Representative and a Senator from New Mexico; born in Centerville, Turner County, S.Dak., October 23, 1895; attended the public schools, Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, S.Dak., and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; moved to Albuquerque, N.Mex., in…
Rodey was a member of the Territorial senate in 1889; author of the bill creating the University of New Mexico; member of the constitutional convention of New Mexico in 1890; and elected as a Republican to the Fifty‑seventh and Fifty‑eighth Congresses (March 4, 1901‑March 3, 1905). RODEY, BERNARD SHANDON:…
Perea served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention at St. Louis in 1896; elected as a Republican to the Fifty‑sixth Congress (March 4, 1899‑March 3, 1901). PEREA, PEDRO: Born in Bernalillo, Sandoval County, N. Mex., April 22, 1852; attended St. Michael’s College, Santa Fe, N. Mex., Georgetown…
Perea served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Baltimore in 1864; elected as a Republican to the Thirty‑eighth Congress (March 4, 1863, to March 3, 1865). PEREA, FRANCISCO: Born in Padillas, N. Mex. (then in the Republic of Mexico), January 9, 1830; attended a select school…
BURSUM, HOLM O.: Republican, of Socorro; stock raiser; born at Fort Dodge, Iowa, February 10, 1867; resident of New Mexico since 1881; member of Territorial senate 1899‑1900; delegate to the Republican National Conventions 1904, 1908, 1912; chairman of the Republican Territorial central committee 1905, 1911; member and Republican floor…
WALTON, WILLIAM BELL: Born in Altoona, Blair County, Pa., January 23, 1871; attended the public schools and the South Jersey Institute, Bridgeton, N. J.; moved to New Mexico in 1891; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1893, and commenced practice at 37 Deming, N. Mex.; member of…
SIMMS, ALBERT GALLATIN: Republican, of Albuquerque, N. Mex.; born in Washington, Ark., 1882; attended private schools and University of Arkansas; resided from 1906 to 1912 in Monterrey, Mexico; came to Silver City, N. Mex., in 1912; admitted to the bar in 1915; during World War served as field director…
Biography of Nestor Montoya MONTOYA, NESTOR: Born in Old Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, N. Mex., April 14, 1862; attended the common schools, and was graduated from St. Michael’s College, Santa Fe, N. Mex., in 1881; began newspaper work in 1889; owned and edited the Spanish paper called “La Bandera Americana”…
Eighty years ago, the United States faced the worst epidemic in our nation’s history. The Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 killed over half a million Americans and an estimated 20 million persons worldwide. By Richard Melzer and Oswald G. Baca Eighty years ago, the United States faced the worst…
