Francisco Perea

Francisco Perea

Francisco Perea (born January 9, 1830 in Los Padillas , Mexico , † May 21, 1913 in Albuquerque , New Mexico ) was an American politician . Between 1863 and 1865 he represented the New Mexico Territory as a delegate in the US House of Representatives .

Early years

Francisco Perea, who was born near Albuquerque, attended schools in his homeland, which at that time still belonged to Mexico. Between 1843 and 1845 he studied at Jesuit College in St. Louis . In the years 1847 to 1849 he graduated from the Bank Street Academy in New York . Between 1850 and 1864 he worked, among other things, as a trader and cattle breeder. Occasionally he led teams of mules with goods from the state of Missouri to the New Mexico Territory.

Political rise

At the start of the Civil War , Francisco Perea was a lieutenant colonel on the Union side from 1861 to 1862. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party , whose federal party congress he attended as a delegate in 1864. At this convention, President Abraham Lincoln was nominated for a second term. In the congressional election of 1862, Perea was elected as a delegate to the US House of Representatives. There he replaced John Sebrie Watts on March 4, 1863 . However, he had no voting rights because New Mexico was not yet a state in the United States at the time. In 1864 he was no longer nominated for this office by his party; therefore he resigned on March 3, 1865 from the Congress .

Another résumé

After his time in the federal capital Washington , Perea returned to New Mexico. In 1881 he moved to Jemez Springs , where he ran a hotel, among other things. From 1894 to 1905 he was the postman in this place. In 1906 he moved to Albuquerque, where he spent the rest of his life and also died in 1913. His cousin Pedro Perea also represented the New Mexico Territory between 1899 and 1901 as a delegate in the House of Representatives.

Web links

• Francisco Perea in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Francisco Perea in the database of Find a Grave (English)