- Pete Domenici
Pietro Vichi "Pete" Domenici (born May 7 1932) is an American politician, currently serving as a Republican Senator from New Mexico. He has served continuously since 1973, the longest tenure in the state's history. On September 7 2006, he cast his 13,000th vote, joining only seven other Senators who have done the same. - Jeff Bingaman
Jesse Francis "Jeff" Bingaman Jr. (born October 3, 1943) is the junior U.S. Senator from New Mexico. He has been in the Senate since 1983 and is a member of the Democratic Party. Bingaman was Attorney General of New Mexico from 1978 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 1982, when he defeated Republican incumbent and former astronaut Harrison Schmitt. He was re-elected in 1988, 1994, 2000, and 2006. - Heather Wilson
Heather A. Wilson (born December 30 1960), is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing. She is the first and so far only woman veteran elected to the United States Congress. Much of her legislative focus has been on national security issues. - Tom Udall
Thomas Stewart Udall usually called Tom Udall (born May 18, 1948) is an American politician who has represented as a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999. Tom Udall was born in Tucson, Arizona. He attended Prescott College, graduating with a pre-law degree in 1970. In 1975, he graduated from Cambridge University in England with a Bachelor of Law degree. - Steve Pearce
Stevan E. "Steve" Pearce (born August 24, 1947) has represented (map) as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives since 2003. He is an Assistant Minority Whip. Steve is a leader on the House Natural Resources Committee where he is the Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and is a member of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands. - Billy The Kid
Henry McCarty (November 23, 1859 - July 14, 1881) was better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William Harrison Bonney. He was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and gunman who was a participant in the Lincoln County War. He was reputed to have killed 21 men, one for each year of his life. McCarty was 5'8" with blue eyes, smooth cheeks, and prominent front teeth. - Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist. She is typically associated with the American southwest and particularly New Mexico where she settled late in life. O'Keeffe has been a major figure in American art since the 1920s. She is chiefly known for paintings in which she synthesizes abstraction and representation in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes. - Blue Corn
Blue Corn, also known as Crucita Calabaza, was a Native American potter from San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, United States. She became famous for reviving San Ildefonso polychrome wares and had a very long and productive career. Her grandmother first introduced her to pottery making at the age of three. Maria Martinez’s sister gave her the name “Blue Corn” during the naming ceremony, which is the Native American tradition of naming a child. - Dennis Chavez
Dennis Chávez was a Democratic politician from the U.S. State of New Mexico who served in the United States House of Representatives and in the United States Senate from 1935 to 1962. - Brian Urlacher
Brian Keith Urlacher (born May 25, 1978) is an American football player for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. Urlacher, a five-time Pro Bowl player, has established himself as one of the NFL's most productive linebackers. He is regarded as one of the best defensive players in the NFL, winning the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Award in 2000 and the NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award in 2005, … - Barbara Richardson
Barbara Richardson is the wife of Bill Richardson, the current governor of New Mexico. She was a magna cum laude graduate in 1971 of Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She formed the New Mexico Immunizations Coalition in April 2003. The coalition of doctors and state officials created a registry that all medical providers can check to see which immunizations children need, … - Pat Garrett
Patrick "Pat" Floyd Garrett (June 5, 1850 - February 28, 1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender, and customs agent who was most known for killing Billy the Kid. - Demi Moore
Demi Moore (born November 11, 1962) is an American actress. She became well-known after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies, and was one of the best known actresses of 1990s Hollywood. - Harrison Schmitt
Dr. Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is a retired geologist, astronaut and former U.S. senator from New Mexico. He is the twelfth and one of the last two people to walk on the moon. Harrison Schmitt is also credited with taking the photograph of the earth called "Blue Moon". - Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman (born May 27 1925) is an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works. His mystery novels are set in the Four Corners area of New Mexico and Arizona. The protagonists are Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee of the Navajo tribal police. Lt. Leaphorn was introduced in Hillerman's first novel, "The Blessing Way" (1970). The second book in the series, "Dance Hall of the Dead" (1973), … - Elfego Baca
Elfego Baca was a legendary lawman, lawyer, and politician in the closing days of the American wild west. Elfego Baca was born in New Mexico just before the end of the American Civil War. His family later moved to Topeka, Kansas when he was a young child. Upon his mother’s death in 1880, Baca returned with his father to Belen, New Mexico where his father became a marshal. In 1884, at age 19, Baca stole some guns, bought a mail-order sheriff’s badge, … - Maria Martinez
Maria Martinez was a Native American artist who created internationally known pottery. Martinez (born Maria Antonia Montoya), her husband Julian, and other family members examined traditional Pueblo pottery styles and techniques to create pieces which reflect the Pueblo people’s legacy of fine artwork and crafts. Maria was from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, a community located 20 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico. - Joe Skeen
Joseph Richard "Joe" Skeen (June 30, 1927-- December 7, 2003) was a conservative Republican congressman from southern New Mexico. He served for eleven terms in the United States House of Representatives between 1980 and 2003. Skeen was born in Roswell, New Mexico. During his teenage years, his family moved to Seattle. During the final year of World War II, Skeen entered the United States Navy. After returning home, he graduated from Texas A&M University in College Station, … - Allen Weh
Allen Weh has been the chairman of the New Mexico Republican Party since 2004, is a retired US Marine Corps Reserve officer, and is now president and CEO of CSI Aviation Services Inc.. - Joseph Montoya
Joseph Manuel Montoya (September 24, 1915 - June 8, 1978) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from the State of New Mexico from 1964 until 1977. - John Miller
John Miller (1850? - November 7, 1937) was said to have claimed to be the famous Western outlaw Billy The Kid. Due to the fact that Miller never obtained the fame of Brushy Bill Roberts, another claimant, he has not been as deeply researched, and therefore his life is even more mysterious and cloudy than Brushy's. Another thing that makes Miller unique as a claimaint is that he never told his story publicly. - Manuel Lujan Jr.
Manuel Lujan, Jr. (born May 12, 1928), is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of New Mexico who served as the United States Secretary of the Interior from 1989 to 1993 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1969 to 1989. He was a colleague of George Herbert Walker Bush in the House from 1969-1971. In 1989, President Bush named Lujan to his Cabinet. - Albert B. Fall
Albert Bacon Fall (November 26, 1861 - November 30, 1944) was a United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, notorious for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal. - Conrad Hilton
Conrad Nicholson Hilton, Sr. was an American hotelier and founder of the Hilton Hotel chain. - Nancy Lopez
Nancy Lopez (born January 6, 1957 in Torrance, California) is one of the most accomplished women in the history of professional women's golf. She won the United States Girls Junior Amateur Golf Championship in 1972 and again in 1974. In her rookie year on the LPGA Tour, she won nine tournaments, and was named Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year in the same season. This feat has not been repeated to date. Lopez was inducted in the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1987. - Nick Wechsler
Nick Wechsler (born September 3, 1978 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American actor best known for his role as Kyle Valenti in the "Roswell" television series. - Manuel Armijo
Manuel Armijo was a New Mexican soldier and statesman who served three times as governor of New Mexico. He was instrumental in putting down the Revolt of 1837, he led the force that captured the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, and he surrendered to the United States in the Mexican-American War. - Cochise
Cochise (A-da-tli-chi = "hardwood", also Cheis) (c. 1815-June 8, 1874) was a chief (a "nantan") of the Chokonen ("central" or "real" Chiricahua) band of the Chiricahua Apache and the leader of an uprising that began in 1861. - Denise Chavez
Denise Elia Chavez (born August 15, 1948) is an American author, playwright, and stage director. She was born to an Hispano family in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and graduated from Madonna High School in Mesilla. She received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Dramatic Arts from Trinity University. While in college, she began writing dramatic works. Upon graduation, she worked at the Dallas Theater Center while continuing her studies in drama and writing. - Bill Mauldin
William Henry "Bill" Mauldin (October 29, 1921 - January 22, 2003) was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist of the United States. - Norman Petty
Norman Petty (May 25, 1927 - August 15, 1984) was an American musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer of the Southwest who helped shape modern popular music, including pop and rock. Born in the small town of Clovis, New Mexico, near the Texas border, Petty began playing piano at a young age. While in high school, he was regularly heard on a fifteen minute show on a local radio station. Petty and his wife Vi founded the Norman Petty Trio, … - Jimmy Santiago Baca
Jimmy Santiago Baca is an American writer. Baca was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1952. His parents abandoned him at the age of seven, leaving him, and his siblings, Mieyo and Martina, at their grandparent's house. After his grandfather died in 1959, Jimmy and Mieyo were sent to an orphanage, while his sister stayed with the grandmother to help her out. - Geronimo
Geronimo (June 16 1829-February 17 1909) was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who warred against the encroachment of the United States on his tribal lands and people for over 25 years. - Baxter Black
Baxter Black (born January 2, 1945) is an American cowboy, poet, philosopher, former large-animal veterinarian, and radio commentator. Black grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was trained as a large-animal veterinarian at New Mexico State University and Colorado State University, but began writing and speaking in the early 1980s. Black left his veterinary career soon afterwards, and since has published over a dozen books of fiction, poetry, and commentary. - Bronson M. Cutting
Bronson Murray Cutting was a United States Senator from New Mexico, publisher, and military attaché. Bronson Cutting was born in Oakdale, Long Island, New York, on June 23, 1888. He attended the common schools and Groton School and graduated from Harvard University in 1910. Shortly after graduation, he became an invalid and moved to Santa Fe at the advice of his doctors to restore his health. - Margaret Tafoya
Margaret Tafoya was the matriarch of Santa Clara Pueblo potters. Margaret learned the art of making pottery from her parents Sara Fina Guiterrez Tafoya (1863-1949) and Jose Geronimo Tafoya (1863-1955). Sara Fina was considered the leading potter of Santa Clara in her day, as the master of making exceptionally large, finely polished blackware. She also occasionally made redware, micaceous clay storage jars and other smaller utilitarian forms. - Brian Baird
Brian Norton Baird (born March 7 1956) is an American politician. Brian Baird has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing. He attended the University of Utah and the University of Wyoming, completing a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Dr. Baird is the former chairman of the Department of Psychology at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and a licensed clinical psychologist. - William Hanna
William Denby "Bill" Hanna (July 14, 1910 - March 22, 2001) was an American animator, director, producer, cartoon artist, and co-founder, together with Joseph Barbera, of Hanna-Barbera. The studio produced well-known cartoons such as "The Huckleberry Hound Show", "The Flintstones", "The Jetsons", "Scooby-Doo" as well as the musical film, Charlotte's Web. - Hampton Sides
Hampton Sides (born 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee) is the author of "Ghost Soldiers", which won the 2002 PEN USA award for nonfiction. He has also served as an editor for "Outside" magazine. His magazine work has been twice nominated for National Magazine Awards for feature writing. Sides is also the author of "Americana", "Stomping Grounds" and "Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West". He lives in Santa Fe with his wife Anne, … - Edwin L. Mechem
Edwin Leard Mechem (2 July 1912 - 27 November 2002), Republican politician from New Mexico, three-term Governor of New Mexico 1951-1955, 1957-1959, and 1961-1962, United States Senator from New Mexico 1962 to 1964. Born in Alamogordo, he attended Alamogordo and Las Cruces, NM schools. He attended New Mexico A & M (now New Mexico State University), 1930-31 and 1935. He worked as a land surveyor for the U.S. Reclamation Service in Las Cruces from 1932 to 1935.
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