New Mexico's at-large congressional district

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.

List of representatives

Years		Seat A				Seat B
		Representative	Party	Electoral history		Representative	Party	Electoral history
January 8, 1912 – March 3, 1913		Harvey Fergusson	Democratic	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]		George Curry	Republican	Retired
March 3, 1913 – March 3, 1915			No second seat until 1943
March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1917		Benigno C. Hernández				Republican	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1919		William B. Walton				Democratic	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1921		Benigno C. Hernández				Republican	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
March 4, 1921 – January 13, 1923		Néstor Montoya				Republican	Died
January 13, 1923 – March 3, 1923		Vacant
March 4, 1923 – March 3, 1929		John Morrow	Democratic	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
March 4, 1929 – March 3, 1931		Albert G. Simms	Republican	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
March 4, 1931 – January 3, 1935		Dennis Chavez	Democratic	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1941		John J. Dempsey	Democratic	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1943		Clinton P. Anderson	Democratic	Resigned to become U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
January 3, 1943 – June 30, 1945			Antonio M. Fernández		Democratic	Died
June 30, 1945 – January 3, 1947		Vacant
January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1949		Georgia Lee Lusk	Democratic	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1951		John E. Miles	Democratic	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
January 3, 1951 – November 7, 1956		John J. Dempsey	Democratic	Died
November 7, 1956 – April 9, 1957			Vacant
April 9, 1957 – March 11, 1958			Joseph Montoya	Democratic	Resigned when elected U.S. Senator
March 12, 1958 – January 3, 1959		Vacant
January 3, 1959 – November 3, 1964		Thomas G. Morris	Democratic	Lost re-election
November 3, 1964 – January 3, 1965			Vacant
January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1969			E. S. Johnny Walker	Democratic	Redistricted to the 2nd district

Elections

First seat

1920s

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.

1930s

References

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. 
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. 
• Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present