Andrew W. Hockenhull

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Andrew W. Hockenhull (January 16, 1877–June 20, 1974) was born in rural Missouri. He attended Southwest Baptist College in Bolivar, Missouri, received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri in 1897, and studied law at the University of Texas. Hockenhull married Mame Drake of Bolivar, Missouri on November 20, 1901, and had three daughters.

Hockenhull moved to New Mexico in 1908 and began practicing law in Clovis in 1909. He also served as assistant district attorney (1912-1916), and city attorney for six years. A Democrat, Hockenhull was elected Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico in 1930 and was re-elected 1932. He became Governor upon the death of Governor Arthur Seligman in September, 1933, and completed the term in 1934.

He is, so far, the only Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico to assume the Governor's office due to the death of the sitting Governor. He also holds the title of the longest surviving former-Governor of New Mexico, living 97 years, and 40 years beyond the expiration of his term.

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