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Topic: Governors of New Mexico Territory

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of Governors of Alaska
		This is a list of the governors of the U.S. state of Alaska, of the Territory of Alaska and of the District of Alaska, and the military commanders of the Department of Alaska, as well as the governors of Russian America.
		Seal of the Governor of Puerto Rico The Governor of Puerto Rico is the Head of Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
		It is bordered by Yukon Territory and British Columbia, Canada to the east, the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean to the south, the Bering Sea, Bering Strait, and Chukchi Sea to the west, and the Beaufort Sea and the Arctic Ocean to the north.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-Governors-of-Alaska (3127 words)

	New Mexico - LoveToKnow 1911
		New Mexico is traversed by two transcontinental lines, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, from Chicago to San Francisco and the Southern Pacific, from New Orleans to San Francisco.
		The total population of New Mexico in 1870 was 91,874; in 1880, 119,565; in 1890, 153,593; in 1900, 195,310, and in 1910, according to, the U.S. census, the figure was 327,301.
		The executive officers until 1911 were a governor and a Territorial secretary appointed by the President of the United States, and a treasurer, auditor, superintendent of public instruction, adjutant-general, commissioner of public lands and other administrative officials appointed by the governor.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NEW_MEXICO.htm (7683 words)

	New Mexico Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The western portion of New Mexico came from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, while the remainder of eastern New Mexico (from the Rio Grande to the present New Mexico-Texas border) was added as consequence of the Compromise of 1850.
		The land contained in the original 1850 New Mexico Territory was the western portion of the future state, plus most of future Arizona (known as Santa Ana County), a small part of Colorado, and Nevada south of 36° 30' N.
		The Texan cession and the Gadsden Purchase expanded the territory greatly, but the establishment of Colorado Territory on February 28, 1861 and of Arizona Territory on February 24, 1863 (west of the 109th meridian) left New Mexico with its present boundaries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Mexico_Territory (321 words)

	New Mexico
		Limerick essentially proposed that New Western Historians should not offer a clearly defined geographic west, that the old view and meaning of the “frontier” should be discarded, that the process of settling the region involved all peoples, their encounters with each other, and the environment.
		New Mexico’s insistence on an amendment in the proposed state constitution restricting slavery would have further aggravated the then existing national crisis.
		New Mexico’s population in the 1900 census was 195,310.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~gerion/new_mexico.htm (8090 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		NEW MEXICO, one of the Mountain states of the U.S., bounded on the N by Colorado, on the E by Oklahoma and Texas, on the S by Texas and the Mexican state of Chihuahua, and on the W by Arizona.
		New Mexico, with an area of 314,939 sq km (121,598 sq mi), is the fifth largest state in the U.S.; 33.1% of the land area is owned by the federal government.
		The NW quadrant of New Mexico is part of the Colorado Plateau, an area of broad valleys and plains, cut by deep canyons and dotted with mesas.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/newmexico.html (3967 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mexico
		The Republic of Mexico is situated at the extreme point of the North American continent, bounded on the north by the United States, on the east by the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, British Honduras, and Guatemala, and on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean.
		In New Spain the Tribunal of the Inquisition was composed of three Apostolic inquisitors and a treasurer, each with a salary of three thousand pesos, paid three times a year in advance by the canonries of the cathedrals of their respective districts.
		21-- The governors of states, districts, and territories shall exercise the strictest vigilance for the enforcement of the laws in regard to cemeteries and burial grounds, and in no place shall decent burial be refused the dead no matter what may be the decision of the priests or their respective churches.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10250b.htm (15988 words)

	New Mexico Requests Full Protection for Roadless National Forests (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Governors have been critical of the new Bush roadless policy due to its uncertainty and the burden it places on state resources.
		Governor Richardson followed the petition process mandated by the Bush administration despite repeated unanswered requests for financial assistance to develop the petition.
		New Mexico's petition was submitted on the same day a statewide poll was released by the Heritage Forests Campaign showing broad public support for protecting roadless areas.
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=66692 (594 words)

	New Mexico Fast Facts and Trivia
		New Mexico is one of the four corner states.
		New Mexico's State Constitution officially states that New Mexico is a bilingual State, and 1 out of 3 families in New Mexico speak Spanish at home.
		New Mexico's largest city Albuquerque was founded in 1706 as a Spanish farming community.
	www.50states.com /facts/newmex.htm (1455 words)

	The Territorial Period: Part Six of A Cuarto Centennial History of New Mexico, by Robert J. Torrez
		When James S. Calhoun arrived in New Mexico to serve as the first civil governor of this new territory, it marked the beginning of a decade of extraordinary change for this newly acquired territory.
		New Mexico retained these boundaries until 1861, when the northeastern portion of the territory was attached to Colorado.
		The most dramatic change to New Mexico's boundaries came in 1863, when the territory was divided nearly in half and the western portion made a separate Arizona Territory.
	www.nmgs.org /artcuar6.htm (988 words)

	Western Democrat: New Mexico
		Governor Richardson is the chair of the Democratic Governors Association, and he needs to hear from us Westerners about the issues that matter most to us.
		Governor Richardson is one of the key players here in the West, and I have no doubt he's going to continue to play a big role in the political future of our region.
		Arizona has a clean money system for finance, New Mexico has a mandated paper trail for all its ballots and Oregon, with their vote-by-mail, sets a great western standard for civic participation (turnout in 2004 was 70.9%) and strengthening democratic ideals.
	www.westerndemocrat.com /new_mexico (10614 words)

	Governors of Oklahoma
		Governor Cruce was noted for his consistent refusal to permit the enforcement of the death penalty.
		On January 6, 1963, he resigned from the office of Governor and was appointed to the United States Senate to fill the position left vacant by the death of Robert S. Kerr.
		Born June 9, 1927, McAlester, OK Was Governor of Oklahoma from January 6, 1963, until January 14, 1963, the shortest term for that office in the history of the State.
	www.rootsweb.com /~okbits/governors.html (3790 words)

	Buying in Mexico \| New York Times Real Estate \| Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca
		The 1917 provision, according to historians, was a response to the loss of Mexican territory - about a third of the country - in the 19th century.
		Still, some Americans have been reluctant to buy property in Mexico, in part because of myths about "owners" being evicted from houses they had "purchased." Others were worried that their property could be nationalized by the Mexican government, although there are no examples of that happening in recent decades.
		Two years ago, the governors of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora created a real estate committee (part of a longstanding Arizona-Mexico Commission) to propose ways of encouraging cross-border real estate transactions.
	www.puertorealestate.com /buying-in-mexico.htm (1136 words)

	New Mexico Magazine \| Memorias History Timeline
		The duke was viceroy of New Spain from 1702-11.
		January 19, 1847 — The first appointed territorial governor of New Mexico, Charles Bent, was murdered and scalped in front of his Taos home while his terrified family watched during the Taos Rebellion, a futile revolt against the new American rule.
		February 28, 1861 — Congress organizes the Territory of Colorado, and a northern portion of New Mexico from the fertile San Luis Valley to the east is taken.
	www.nmmagazine.com /NMGUIDE/memorias.html (2828 words)

	Announcements \| News & Press \| New Mexico Film Museum
		Established with the conquest of Santa Fe by General Stephen Watts Kearny and the 1st Regiment of United States Dragoons on August 18, 1846, Fort Marcy was the military and administrative center for the territory of New Mexico during the nineteenth century.
		NMHM relates the New Mexico experience through exhibitions, outreach and educational programming such as films, lectures and demonstrations that encourage understanding and appreciation of the Stateâs storied past and contemporary cultural heritage.
		The New Mexico Film Museum plans to develop engaging and interactive exhibitions and educational seminars, and raise awareness of the cultural impact of motion pictures.
	nmfilmmuseum.org /news (1217 words)

	History of Santa Fe, New Mexico
		Santa Fe, New Mexico is the oldest capital city in North America and also the oldest European city west of the Mississippi.
		Santa Fe is the site of both the oldest public building in America, the Palace of the Governors:, and the nation's oldest community celebration, the Santa Fe Fiesta, established in 1712 to remember the Spanish reconquest of New Mexico in the summer of 1692.
		The "Kingdom of New Mexico" was first claimed for Spain by the conquistador Don Francisco Vasques de Coronado in 1540, 67 years before the founding of Santa Fe.
	www.thesantafesite.com /history.html (809 words)

	Online NewsHour: Governors Declare Emergency Along U.S.-Mexico Border -- August 18, 2005
		The governors of New Mexico and Arizona have declared states of emergency in response to continued gang violence and drug smuggling associated with the flow of Mexicans illegally entering the United States.
		Clearly in my stretch of 180 miles in New Mexico there's very little patrolling going on, and as Gov. Napolitano said in her clip, the traffic of human beings is spawning smuggling of drugs, desecration of property.
		I personally have told the governor that I accept his invitation that he kindly offered me when we had our contact to go to New Mexico in the near future and to have a good conversation with him and see what we can do together.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/latin_america/july-dec05/borders_8-18.html (1936 words)

	AP Wire \| 11/08/2006 \| Democratic governors claim edge
		"It's extremely significant, the winning of these governors' races, for winning in '08, for congressional redistricting, for shifting the power of policy from the federal government to the states," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat who won a second term and is himself exploring a White House run.
		The Democrats reversed GOP dominance that reached back to 1994, seizing a 28-22 edge in governor's mansions and stretching into several states that had been in Republican hands for eight years or longer, many of them rich with swing voters - Ohio, Colorado and Arkansas among them.
		The California governor moved to the center on the environment, minimum wage and border control.
	www.mercurynews.com /mld/mercurynews/news/politics/15953348.htm (507 words)

	Priceless Spanish Colonial Artwork Donated to Palace of the Governors
		With construction of the New Mexico History Museum underway, there will be a new storage facility and exhibition areas in both the Palace and new museum for the large collection.
		The Palace of the Governors, built from 1609 to 1610, is the state history museum for New Mexico and is housed in the oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.
		The Palace of the Governors/The New Mexico History Museum, is a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
	www.frugalfun.com /priceless-spanish-art.html (959 words)

	Samuel Beach Axtell
		During Utah's history there have been 14 Territorial Governors and 16 Governors of the State.
		Born near Columbus, Ohio, in 1819, Axtell attended Oberlin and Western Reserve Colleges, married Adaline S. Williams, practiced law in Michigan and California, and served in Congress (1867-71) as both a Democrat and a Republican.
		After only a few months in Utah, he was sent by Grant to New Mexico Territory as governor and was later chief justice there.
	historytogo.utah.gov /people/governors/territorial/axtell.html (110 words)

	NLGA Home
		The Patriot-News says Pennsylvania Lt. Governor Catherine Baker Knoll is not ruling out a run for governor in 2010.
		NLGA extends sympathy to the family of former South Dakota Lt. Governor Carole Hillard on her passing.
		The results indicate steel, with its fire-retardant qualities, is a new preference for residential roofing, particularly in wildfire-prone Western states.
	www.nlga.us (371 words)

	New Mexico CultureNet - The Civil War in New Mexico
		Many people do not know that the Civil War was fought as far west as New Mexico, but in fact there was a vigourous campaign conducted here...
		The Confederates attempted to reshape the destiny of this region, briefly establishing a new territory capital at Mesilla, but their reign lasted only one year.
		This web site was a collaborative project of The Palace of The Governors, a unit of the Museum of New Mexico, the SER Academy, Santa Fe, whose students did the initial work on it, and Santa Fe Community College, who provided technical instruction and support.
	nmculturenet.org /heritage/civil_war (297 words)

	FOXNews.com - Democratic Governors Claim Edge - Politics \| Republican Party \| Democratic Party \| Political Spectrum
		The Democrats reversed GOP dominance that reached back to 1994, seizing a 28-22 edge in governor's mansions and stretching into several states that had been in Republican hands for eight years or longer, many of them rich with swing voters _ Ohio, Colorado and Arkansas among them.
		The California governor moved to the center on the environment, minimum wage and border control.
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	www.foxnews.com /wires/2006Nov08/0,4670,ELNGovernors,00.html (814 words)

	Introduction-The Palace Print Shop & Bindery-Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, New Mexico
		Educational programs are offered in the form of on site lecture-tours, workshops in the public schools, and an annual book festival.
		Situated in rooms adjoining the nearly 400-year-old courtyard of the Palace of the Governors is the Print Shop and Bindery, known as the Palace Print Shop, or, more formally, as the Press of the Palace of the Governors.
		A living Museum of New Mexico exhibit dedicated to the history of the state's printing traditions, the Print Shop offers some 70,000 yearly visitors an opportunity to relive the lively environment of 19
	www.palaceofthegovernors.org /PrintShop/intro.html (260 words)

	Introduction
		The New Mexico items are linked judiciously with other sites on the Web, to allow for further exploration and research if desired.
		1846: President Polk delcares war on Mexico and sends General Stephen Watts Kearny to invade New Mexico and claim it for the United States.
		1889: the University of New Mexico is established in Albuquerque
	www.vivanewmexico.com /ghosts/context.html (1706 words)

	Palace of the Governors - New Mexico Vertical Files
		New Mexico — Counties — Dona Ana (1)
		New Mexico — Counties — Los Alamos (1)
		New Mexico — Counties — Rio Arriba (1)
	www.palaceofthegovernors.org /vf_newmexico.html (1727 words)

	Influential US Senators Call for Direct Talks with North Korea
		But calls are growing in Washington for the White House to change its policy and directly engage Pyongyang.
		Speaking on a nationally-televised news program Sunday, Republican Senator Richard Lugar -- chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a close ally of President Bush -- said direct talks may be the best way to bring a diplomatic solution to the missile test situation.
		News emerged Monday of other means the United States may be able to use to guard against any threat a North Korean missile may impose.
	www.voanews.com /burmese/2006-06-26-voa4.cfm (560 words)

	National Governors Association
		Follow the links below to find out general biographical and term information about each state/ commonwealth/ territory's governor.
		Click here for the Governors' Bio Book in PDF format.
		National Governors Association, Hall of the States, 444 N. Capitol St., Ste.
	www.nga.org /portal/site/nga/menuitem.42b929b1a5b9e4eac3363d10501010a0/?vgnextoid=d54c8aaa2ebbff00VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextfmt=curgov (87 words)

	Democratic Governors Association: New Mexico
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	democraticgovernors.org /elections/564/new-mexico (93 words)

	D.C.'s Political Report: New Mexico Congressional and Statewide Races
		New Mexico Secretary of State - Bureau of Elections
		Governor - Tied with Gov., 55.5% in '02, 1
		D.C.'s Political Report's stars indicate the rating of the race from 1 star to 5 stars depending on its entertainment value.
	www.dcpoliticalreport.com /NM.htm (369 words)

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