New Mexico


YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1595 Part of Spanish colony of New Spain (Mexico)
1822 Part of Mexico
1846 august U.S. occupation Stephen Watts Kearny
1846 september Charles Bent
1847 19 january Sterling Price
1848 Sterling Price
1849 John Munroe
1850 9 september U.S. Territory
1851 James S. Calhoun
1852 Edwin V. Sumner
1852 John Greiner
1852 William C. Lane
1853 William S. Messery
1854 David Meriwether
1857 Abraham Rencher
1861 Henry Connelly
1865 W.F.M. Arny
1866 Robert B. Mitchell
1869 William A. Pile
1871 Marsh Giddings
1875 William G. Ritch
1875 Samuel B. Axtell
1878 Lewis Wallace
1881 Lionel A. Sheldon
1885 Edmund G. Ross
1889 Le Baron Bradford Prince
1893 William T. Thornton
1897 Miguel Antonio Otero
1906 Herbert J. Hagerman
1907 George Curry
1909 William J. Mills
1912 6 january 47^ state of U.S.A.

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