Soledad Chavez Chacón
Soledad Chávez Chacón , also called Lala Chacón , (born August 11, 1892 in Albuquerque , New Mexico , † August 4, 1936 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1926 she served as Secretary of State in the state of New Mexico and as acting governor for two weeks in 1924 .
Career
Soledad Chávez Chacón comes from a prominent and politically active middle-class Hispanic family. She graduated from Albuquerque High School in 1908 and from Albuquerque College of Business in 1910 . In 1910 she married Ireneo Chacón, the manager of a furniture store in Albuquerque. The couple had two children, Adelina and Santiago.
Politically, she belonged to the Democratic Party . Because of her education and her work in civil, literary and service organizations such as el Club Literario , Women's Club and Minerva Club , she decided to go into politics. In 1922 she was nominated and elected to the post of Secretary of State of New Mexico. She was the first woman to hold this office. Her first act was to hire her husband as a deputy. She was re-elected once. After Lieutenant Governor José A. Baca died in May 1924 and Governor James F. Hinkle left the state for the Democratic National Convention in New York City , she served as acting governor from June 21 to July 5, 1924. In 1934 she was elected to the New Mexico House of Representatives.
She died in 1936 of complications from an operation at the Women's and Children's Hospital in Albuquerque. Her body was then interred in Mount Calvery Cemetery in Albuquerque.
literature
- Blue Book 2012 (PDF; 28.9 MB) , Office of the New Mexico Secretary of State, July 2012, pp. 58, 221 and 224
- Buried Treasures: Famous and Unusual Gravesites in New Mexico History , Richard Melzer, Sunstone Press, 2007, ISBN 0865345317 , p. 224
- Latinas in the United States, set: A Historical Encyclopedia , Vicki L. Ruiz, Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Indiana University Press, 2006, ISBN 0253111692 , pp. 143f
Web links
- Soledad Chávez Chacón on the Albuquerque Journal website
- Soledad Chávez Chacón on the Irascible Musings website
- Soledad Chávez Chacón on the website of Ms. Magazine's blog
- Soledad Chávez Chacón on the New Mexico Politics website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chacón, Soledad Chavez |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chacón, Lala |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Albuquerque , New Mexico |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1936 |
| Place of death | Albuquerque , New Mexico |