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About New Mexico
Past Secretaries of State
Antonio Lucero
Manuel Martinez
Soledad C. Chacon
E. A. Perrault
Marguerite P. Baca
Elizabeth F. Gonzales
Jesse M. Gonzales
Cecilia T. Cleveland
Alicia Valdez Romero
Beatrice Roach Gottlieb
Natalie Smith Buck
Betty Fiorina
Alberta Miller
Ernestine Duran Evans
Shirley Hooper
Clara Padilla Jones
Rebecca Vigil-Giron
Stephanie Gonzales
Mary Herrera
Dianna J. Duran
Brad Winter
Maggie Toulouse Oliver
Terms Served by New Mexico’s Past Secretaries of State
(1912-Present)
The following historical chronology of New Mexico’s Secretaries of State was researched and compiled by Dan D. Chávez, Ph.D., UNM Professor Emeritus.
Five-Year Term1
|
TERM
|
YEARS
|
SECRETARY | PARTY |
|---|---|---|---|
|
5 years
|
1912-1916
|
Antonio J. Lucero
|
Democrat |
Two-Year Terms
|
TERM
|
YEARS
|
SECRETARY | PARTY |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2 years
|
1917-1918
|
Antonio J. Lucero
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1919-1920
|
Manuel Martinez
|
Republican |
|
2 years
|
1921-1922
|
Manuel Martinez
|
Republican |
|
2 years
|
1923-1924
|
Soledad C. Chacón
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1925-1926
|
Soledad C. Chacón
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1927-1928
|
Jennie Fortune
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1929-1930
|
E. A. Perrault
|
Republican |
|
2 years
|
1931-1932
|
Marguerite P. Baca
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1933-1934
|
Marguerite P. Baca
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1935-1936
|
Elizabeth F. Gonzales
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1937-1938
|
Elizabeth F. Gonzales
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1939-1940
|
Jessie M. Gonzales
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1941-1942
|
Jessie M. Gonzales
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1943-1944
|
Cecilia T. Cleveland
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1945-1946
|
Cecilia T. Cleveland
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1947-1948
|
Alicia Valdez Romero
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1949-1950
|
Alicia Valdez Romero
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1951-1952
|
Beatrice Roach Gottlieb
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1953-1954
|
Beatrice Roach Gottlieb
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1955-1956
|
Natalie Smith Buck
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1957-1958
|
Natalie Smith Buck
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1959-1960
|
Betty Fiorina
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1961-1962
|
Betty Fiorina
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1963-1964
|
Alberta Miller
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1965-1966
|
Alberta Miller
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1967-1968
|
Ernestine Durán Evans
|
Democrat |
|
2 years
|
1969-1970
|
Ernestine Durán Evans
|
Democrat |
One Four-Year Term
|
TERM
|
YEARS
|
SECRETARY | PARTY |
|---|---|---|---|
|
4 years
|
1971-1974
|
Betty Fiorina
|
Democrat |
|
4 years
|
1975-1978
|
Ernestine Durán Evans
|
Democrat |
|
4 years
|
1979-1982
|
Shirley Hooper
|
Democrat |
|
4 years
|
1983-1986
|
Clara Padilla Jones
|
Democrat |
|
4 years
|
1987-1990
|
Rebecca Vigil-Girón
|
Democrat |
|
4 years
|
2007-2010
|
Mary Herrera
|
Democrat |
Two Consecutive Four-Year Terms
|
TERM
|
YEARS
|
SECRETARY | PARTY |
|---|---|---|---|
|
4 years
|
1991-1994
|
Stephanie Gonzales
|
Democrat |
|
4 years
|
1995-1998
|
Stephanie Gonzales
|
Democrat |
|
4 years
|
1999-2002
|
Rebecca Vigil-Girón
|
Democrat |
|
4 years
|
2003-2006
|
Rebecca Vigil-Girón
|
Democrat |
|
4 years
|
2011-2014
|
Dianna J. Duran
|
Republican |
|
1 year
|
2015
|
Dianna J. Duran (resigned on October 23, 2015)
|
Republican |
|
1 year
|
2015 – 2016
|
Brad Winter (Governor Appointed, took office on December 15, 2015 – December 9, 2016 4:00 p.m.)
|
Republican |
|
2 years
|
2016 – 2018
|
Maggie Toulouse Oliver (Elected and took office December 9, 2016 after 4:00 p.m.)
|
Democrat |
|
4 years
|
2019 – 2022
|
Maggie Toulouse Oliver
|
Democrat |
|
4 years
|
2023 – 2026
|
Maggie Toulouse Oliver
|
Democrat |
Notes
- Since the first state election was held in 1911 (an odd-numbered year), the first Secretary of State (and the other state executive officers) served a five-year term.
- Projected end-of-term date.
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