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Statehood was finally granted to New Mexico on January 6, 1912. Navajo and Apache raids and plundering led Kit Carson to abandon his intent to retire to a sheep ranch near Taos after the Mexican–American War.
The conservative document that body drafted was ratified by voters early the following year, and on January 6, 1912, New Mexico became the forty-seventh state in the Union. Acknowledgments “New Mexico’s Fight for Statehood, 1895 – 1912”
On January 6, 1912, New Mexico is admitted into the United States as the 47th state. Spanish explorers passed through the area that would become New Mexico in the early 16th century,...
For both New Mexico and Arizona, the road to statehood was protracted and contentious. However, after much effort, on January 6, 1912 New Mexico became the 47th state and on February 14, 1912 Arizona became the 48th state in the Union. Both states celebrate their 100th anniversaries in 2012.
By 1912, when Republicans nominated Taft for a second term, Roosevelt had lost so much faith in him that he formed the “Bull Moose” Progressive Party, thereby splitting the GOP vote and handing victory to Wilson.
This article describes the announcement of statehood for New Mexico. The article also mentions the inauguration of new governor McDonald on January 15, 1912. What statehood means is also; Fillmore's Nomination of James S. Calhoun as 1st Governor of NM Territory Primary Document - National Archives
From the early 1600’s as a Spanish colony known as New Spain, through its acquisition from Mexico as a Territory by the United States in 1848, to becoming its own independent state in 1912, New Mexico’s journey into statehood has been filled with dramatic stops and starts.
President William H. Taft "gave New Mexico life" on January 6, 1912 when granting statehood. The first official statehood map depicted borders of counties, infrastructure, and topographical features of the new state.
Although each had its own area of emphasis and focus, at times even leaving the state, all focused on "New Mexico's Fight for Statehood, 1895-1912." Part 1: Political Leaders of the Latter Half of the 1890s and Statehood.
After more than 60 years as a territory, New Mexicans drafted and passed a new bilingual constitution – the only state to have one – and joined the United States as the 47th state on January 6, 1912. The election for New Mexico’s first statehood governor was heated and dramatic.