enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. History of New Mexico - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_Mexico

    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 approved admission of New Mexico as the 47th state of the Union. [56]

  3. Timeline of New Mexico history - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_New_Mexico_history

    The 1940 United States Census enumerates the population of the State of New Mexico, later determined to be 531,818, an increase of 25.6% since the 1930 United States Census. New Mexico becomes the 41st most populous of the 48 U.S. states and gains a 2nd Congressional seat.

  4. New Mexico - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico

    The same year, New Mexico received $9,624 per resident in federal services, or roughly $20 billion more than what the state pays in federal taxes. [280] The state governor's office estimated that the federal government spends roughly $7.8 billion annually in services such as healthcare, infrastructure development, and public welfare. [120]

  5. List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by...

    The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]

  6. Territorial evolution of New Mexico - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of...

    U.S. Military Province of New Mexico, 1846; U.S. Provisional Government of New Mexico 1846–1850; Unorganized territory created by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848–1850; State of Deseret (extralegal), 1849–1850; Proposed state of New Mexico, 1850; Territory of New Mexico, 1850–1912 [1] Gadsden Purchase of 1853; American Civil War ...

  7. New Mexico Territory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_Territory

    The Territory of New Mexico was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from September 9, 1850, [1] until January 6, 1912. [2] It was created from the U.S. provisional government of New Mexico, as a result of Nuevo México becoming part of the American frontier after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

  8. List of governors of New Mexico - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_governors_of_New_Mexico

    The state of New Mexico was admitted to the Union on January 6, 1912. [67] The state constitution of 1912 called for the election of a governor and lieutenant governor every four years. The term was changed to two years by a 1914 amendment, and lengthened back to four years in 1970.

  9. United States presidential elections in New Mexico - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential...

    Since New Mexico's admission to the Union in January 1912, [1] it has participated in 29 United States presidential elections.In the 1912 presidential election, Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party's nominee, received the highest vote share (17.1%) ever won by a third-party candidate in New Mexico. [2]