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This was the first presidential election in which New Mexico participated, having been admitted to the union as the 47th state on January 6, 1912. During the period between New Mexico's annexation by the United States and statehood, the area was divided between largely Republican machine-run highland regions and its firmly Southern Democrat and ...
Barack Obama became the first black U.S. president and declared it is time to set aside petty differences and embark on a new era of responsibility to repair the country and its image abroad ...
President William Howard Taft at his desk in the Oval Office, signing the statehood bill for New Mexico on January 6, 1912. On January 6, 1912, after years of debate on whether the population of New Mexico was fully assimilated into American culture, or too immersed in corruption, President William Howard Taft twisted arms in Congress and it ...
The first lady of the United States is the hostess of the White House.The position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, but, on occasion, the title has been applied to women who were not presidents' wives, such as when the president was a bachelor or widower, or when the wife of the president was unable to fulfill the duties of the first lady.
From campaign rallies to stops to promote economic and scientific agendas, 10 U.S. presidents have visited New Mexico. Biden, Trump, 8 other presidents visited New Mexico as election seasons revved up
Susana Martinez assumes office as the thirty-first Governor of the State of New Mexico. 2010: April 1: The 2010 United States census enumerates the population of the State of New Mexico, later determined to be 2,059,179, an increase of 13.2% since the 2000 United States census. New Mexico remains the 36th most populous of the 50 U.S. states.
As first lady, Jill Biden added a collection of children's books to the Library, which holds 2,700 books. The China Room is full of artisanal loaves of bread amid bunches of holly. The China Room.
January 6 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state (see History of New Mexico). January 11–March 12 – 1912 Lawrence textile strike ("Bread and Roses" strike): Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, strike in response to a pay cut corresponding to a new law shortening the working week.