Benjamin F. Pankey

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Benjamin Franklin Pankey (born August 16, 1861 in Harrisburg , Illinois , † June 1, 1929 in Santa Fe , New Mexico ) was an American politician of French descent. Between 1919 and 1920 he served in the state of New Mexico as lieutenant governor and in 1920 as acting governor .

Career

Benjamin Pankey, son of Sarah Ann Bickers (1837–1875) and William H. Pankey (1836–1886), was born in Saline County approximately four months after the outbreak of the Civil War . He attended public schools in Harrisburg. In January 1880 he married Flora Wells Harris (1863-1937). The couple had seven children together: Lola May (* 1881), Ethel Ann (* 1883), Daisy Lee (* 1885), Flora Lillian (* 1890), Lula Bernice (* 1893), Eugene Franklin (* 1895) and Living . Five of her daughters reached adulthood. In 1882 the family moved to Topeka ( Kansas ). There he went to a ranch to raise livestock. In 1901 he ran a successful telephone company in Topeka as a competitor to Alexander Graham Bell . He then sold his shares in this company in 1907 and bought a 10,000 acre ranch near Emporia, Kansas and an 81,000 acre ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the family moved a short time later. On his land he ran a large cattle and sheep herd. He was on the New Mexico Cattle Sanitary Board .

Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . In 1910 he took part as a delegate to the New Mexico Constituent Assembly . When he was elected to the convention, he received 95 percent of the vote from six constituencies in his part of the county. He was elected to the First Senate of New Mexico on November 7, 1911 .

In 1918 he was elected lieutenant governor of New Mexico - a post he held from January 1919 to December 1920. During his tenure, Governor Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo issued an amnesty on November 22, 1920 for a group of convicted prisoners known as the Villistas . They were part of a marauding gang of Mexicans under General Pancho Villa . This group crossed the international border between the United States and Mexico on March 9, 1916 and, without prior provocation, attacked the city of Columbus in Luna County , where numerous deaths occurred. After the amnesty was enacted, Governor Larrazolo left the state for some time. During his absence, Pankey served as acting governor. On November 24, 1920, a lawsuit against the amnesty was filed in the Santa Fe County District Court . Pankey then ordered the inmates concerned to remain in detention until further notice pending further orders from the New Mexico executive or the courts. As acting governor, Pankey was also responsible for receiving the Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez at the Hotel De Vargas.

Between 1927 and 1929 he held the post of New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands . He died on June 1, 1929 in Santa Fe. His body was then buried in the cemetery of the same name in Topeka.

literature

  • Blue Book 2012 (PDF; 28.9 MB), Office of the New Mexico Secretary of State, July 2012, pp. 83, 211, 214, 218 and 234.
  • Official Register , Iowa General Assembly, 1919, p. 550.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ancestry.com
  2. ↑ MyTrees.com
  3. ^ GenealogyTrails.com
  4. ↑ EX PARTE BUSTILLOS, 1920-NMSC-095, 26 NM 449, 194 P. 886 (S. Ct. 1920) (PDF; 56 kB)
  5. ^ El Palacio , Volume 8, Bruce T. Ellis, Paul AF Walter, Museum of New Mexico, 1920, p. 40
  6. ^ List of the New Mexico Commissioners of Public Lands (1912-2010) ( Memento September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Office of the NM Secretary of State, July 2012, p. 234
personal data
SURNAME Pankey, Benjamin F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pankey, Benjamin Franklin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Harrisburg , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1929
Place of death Santa Fe , New Mexico