State: | New Mexico |
District Number: | AL |
Obsolete: | yes |
Created: | 1912 |
Eliminated: | 1969 |
Years: | 1912–1969 |
Population Year: | 1960 |
From statehood in 1912 to 1969, New Mexico did not use congressional districts for its representatives to the United States House of Representatives. Instead, it elected its representatives statewide at-large.
Years | Cong ress | Seat A | Seat B | |||||||
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Member | Party | Electoral history | Member | Party | Electoral history | |||||
nowrap | January 8, 1912 – March 3, 1913 | Harvey Fergusson | Democratic | Elected in 1911 for the term starting upon 1912 statehood. Re-elected in 1912. Lost re-election. | align=left | George Curry | Republican | Elected in 1911 for the term starting upon 1912 statehood. Retired. | ||
nowrap | March 3, 1913 – March 3, 1915 | No second seat until 1943 | ||||||||
nowrap | March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1917 | align=left | Benigno C. Hernández | Republican | Elected in 1914. Lost re-election. | |||||
nowrap | March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1919 | align=left | William B. Walton | Democratic | Elected in 1916. Retired to run for U.S. senator. | |||||
nowrap | March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1921 | align=left | Benigno C. Hernández | Republican | Elected in 1918. Retired. | |||||
nowrap | March 4, 1921 – January 13, 1923 | align=left | Néstor Montoya | Republican | Elected in 1920. Retired but died before term expired. | |||||
nowrap | January 13, 1923 – March 3, 1923 | Vacant | ||||||||
nowrap | March 4, 1923 – March 3, 1929 | align=left | John Morrow | Democratic | Elected in 1922. Re-elected in 1924. Re-elected in 1926. Lost re-election. | |||||
nowrap | March 4, 1929 – March 3, 1931 | align=left | Albert G. Simms | Republican | Elected in 1928. Lost re-election. | |||||
nowrap | March 4, 1931 – January 3, 1935 | align=left | Dennis Chavez | Democratic | Elected in 1930. Re-elected in 1932. Retired to run for U.S. senator. | |||||
nowrap | January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1941 | align=left | John J. Dempsey | Democratic | Elected in 1934. Re-elected in 1936. Re-elected in 1938. Retired to run for U.S. senator. | |||||
nowrap | January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1943 | Clinton P. Anderson | Democratic | Elected in 1940. Re-elected in 1942. Re-elected in 1944. Resigned to become U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. | ||||||
nowrap | January 3, 1943 – June 30, 1945 | Antonio M. Fernández | Democratic | Re-elected in 1942. Re-elected in 1944. Re-elected in 1946. Re-elected in 1948. Re-elected in 1950. Re-elected in 1952. Re-elected in 1954. Re-elected in 1956. Died. | ||||||
nowrap | June 30, 1945 – January 3, 1947 | Vacant | ||||||||
nowrap | January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1949 | align=left | Georgia Lee Lusk | Democratic | Elected in 1946. Lost renomination. | |||||
nowrap | January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1951 | align=left | John E. Miles | Democratic | Elected in 1948. Retired. | |||||
nowrap | January 3, 1951 – November 7, 1956 | John J. Dempsey | Democratic | Re-elected in 1950. Re-elected in 1952. Re-elected in 1954. Re-elected in 1956. Died. | ||||||
nowrap | November 7, 1956 – April 9, 1957 | Vacant | ||||||||
nowrap | April 9, 1957 – March 11, 1958 | Joseph Montoya | Democratic | Elected to finish Fernández's term. Re-elected in 1958. Re-elected in 1960. Re-elected in 1962. Retired to run for U.S. senator. Resigned when elected U.S. Senator. | ||||||
nowrap | March 12, 1958 – January 3, 1959 | Vacant | ||||||||
nowrap | January 3, 1959 – November 3, 1964 | Thomas G. Morris | Democratic | Elected in 1958. Re-elected in 1960. Re-elected in 1962. Re-elected in 1964. Re-elected in 1966. Redistricted to the and lost re-election. | ||||||
nowrap | November 3, 1964 – January 3, 1965 | Vacant | ||||||||
nowrap | January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1969 | align=left | E. S. Johnny Walker | Democratic | Elected in 1964. Re-elected in 1966. Redistricted to the and lost re-election. |
Republicans held onto the seat in 1920 by nominating Néstor Montoya, the county clerk of Bernalillo County and former Speaker of the New Mexico Territorial Legislature. Montoya won with a combination of Hispanic voters and coat-tails from the election of President Warren Harding. Republicans did not renominate him in 1922, choosing instead suffragist Adelina Otero-Warren, the niece of former territorial Governor, Miguel Otero, and the first woman to run for statewide office in New Mexico. Otero-Warren was defeated by Democrat John Morrow, an educator and lawyer from northeast New Mexico. Morrow would win consecutive re-elections in 1924 and 1926, but lost re-election in 1928 to Albert G. Simms, an Albuquerque businessman, on the coat-tails of the election of President Herbert Hoover.