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Show 1880 HISTORY John Wesley Green was born Otero and Mills. Llewellyn was chosen the in Newark, fifteenth Ohio, in At a member legislative 1861. the first of the district— At the age of seventeen he was attached to the signal corps of the regular army, serving under Captain Allen in New Mexico. At the age of nineteen he was a sergeant iv 15th U. 8. Inf., in which regiment he served five years in the agains" the Apaches in Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas. campaigns In later years held several offices of honor and trust in Bernalillo county and was marshal a the town of Gallup. He received his commission as first lieutenant of Troop from Governor Otero. After his return from the war he lived in New i for several years, and was superintendent of the territorial penitentiary, 4P pointed by Governor George Curry. David J. Leahy was born in La Salle county, Ill., in 1867. He was erry d in the northern Indiana norma] school at Valparaiso. He came to New i in 1891, and became principal of the schools at Springer, and latervolunteers was its 7 School superintendent of Colfax county. When the call came for organized the contingent from Raton, thirty-two in number, and was a sioned a second lieutenant of Troop G by Governor Otero. He received : shot wound on July 1, 1898, in the charge up San Juan Hill. Returning ein the war, he was appointed clerk of the district court of the sixth judicial with headquarters at Alamogordo, an when that district was created and KE. A. Mann chosen ag presiding judge. This position he held until aethins United States attorney by President Roosevelt, on the retirement of ioe W. H. H. Llewellyn, in 1907. Captain Leahy was a delegate to the wie fe national convention in 1904. At the first state election, in 1911, he was ee judge of the fourth judicial district. 1898 , *°3 Company E of this regiment was mustered in Alburquerque, ib a its officers being: Captain, John Borrodaile; first lieutenant, L. July H. pi: S,, lin; second lieutenant, L. A. McCrea; first sergeant, A. H. Norton; Q. M. John Munn. Reid; Company F was mustered in Las Vegas. Officers: Captain, W. ail first lieutenant, W. O. Morrison; second lieutenant, A. Luntzel; first ers KE. Sporleder; Q. M. S., G. C. Palmer. : Captain, Company G was mustered at Santa Fé, July 13, 1898. Officers: J I William Strover; first leutenant, Page B. Otero; second lieutenant, J- +: Mennet; first sergeant, B. Pearce; Q. M.S., T. F. Kyle. Company Captain, H was mustered at Las Cruces, Officers: Bailey; A. B. Fall; first lieutenant, J. W. Catron; July 17, 1898. second lieutenant, N. E. first sergeant, John G. Bagley; Q. M.S., Llewellyn A. Herring. elected over Octaviano A. Larrazolo, democrat, receiving 21,557 votes while Mr. Larrazolo, who was not heartily supported in some of the counties where his party was in heavy majority, received only 17,857. In 1902, Mr. Rodey 454 was again elected delegate to congress, on this occasion defeating the leader of the democratic party, Harvey B, Fergusson, by 9,696 votes, the largest majority ever given a candidate for delegate in the history of New Mexico.. He was a candidate for a third term as delegate, responding to what was believed to be an almost overwhelming sentiment among the people. Through the power of Miguel A. Otero, governor, and the connivance of sev*54 Bernard Shandon Rodey was born in the County Mayo, Ireland, in 1856. Tn 1862, he was brought to Canada by his parents, and subsequently resided with them in the state of Vermont, close to the Canada line; his parents were farmers. At an early age he left the farm and located in Boston, where he took employment as a clerk and stenographer. In the spring of 1881, he came to Alburquerque as private secretary and stenographer in the office of the general manager of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company. Later he was appointed official court Teporter in the second judicial district under Judge Joseph Bell. He how finished his reading of the law, was admitted, and began a general Practice, in which he was very successful for a number of years. He was a member of the council from Bernalillo county in the twenty-eighth legislative “ssembly, and had much to do with the framing and passage of the educational bills under which the Agricultural college was established. He was chosen delegate to the fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth congresses. Defeated for the nomi- Ration for delegate to the fifty-ninth congress by William H. Andrews, he ran Independent and received 3,419 votes out of a total of 43,011 cast at the election, , Andrews being chosen, receiving 22,305 to 17,125 for George P. Money, ‘mocrat. In 1906, although the leaders of the republican party in New Mexico Tegarded him ag a bolter, 'strict court of Porto Rico. President Roosevelt appointed him judge of the This was the first time in the history of the United States that a citizen of a territory was nominated by the president for a Position upon the federal bench. Mr. Rodey held this position until the close of : ® Roosevelt administration, when he was appointed United States attorney for "@ of the districts in the territory of Alaska, a position which he now holds. be Governors * by 1911, Major = district eae ae ee Tar oe ben ad tk te e ie, en , ee eighth tan the a for first legislature of the state, representing Dofia Ana county, New Mexico. Pie ~ attorney state election, November, business life of the territory. Several of them received commissions from the president of the United States and served their country most loyally and acceptably in the Philippine Islands. The nominee of the republican party for delegates at the election held in 1898 was Don Pedro Perea of Bernalillo county, son of Don José Leandro Perea, a noted citizen of DELEGATES IN CONGRESS the territory during the last half of the nineteenth century. Mr. Perea was elected over Harvey B. Fergusson, receiving 18,722 votes to 16,659 for his opponent. Very little was accomplished in congress by Mr. Perea, and in the year 1900, Bernard S. Rodey, republican, was 7s returning to their 043 ee The officers and enlisted men of these regiments, homes in New Mexico, soon became identified with the political and 1912 a Kentucky, where the regiment was completed by the arrival of the volunteers from Oklahoma and the Indian Territory. Thence they were ordered to Camp Churchman, Albany, Georgia, where the fortunes of war caused them to remain, until finally mustered out in 1899. The regiment was made up entirely of western men, from every trade and profession. Each company enlisted up to 140 and 150 men, and by selection, was brought down to the required numben TO adh MEXICAN = OF NEW eae ta FACTS a LEADING hie 542 |