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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New MexicoMONTOYA, Néstor
(1862—1923)
MONTOYA, Néstor, a Representative from New Mexico; born in Old Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, N.Mex., April 14, 1862; attended the common schools, and was graduated from St. Michael’s College, Santa Fe, N.Mex., in 1881; began newspaper work in 1889; owned and edited the Spanish paper called “La Bandera Americana”; member of the Territorial house of representatives 1892-1903 and served as speaker in the latter year; member of the Territorial senate in 1905 and 1906; president of the State press association 1908-1923; delegate to the convention that drafted and adopted the State constitution of New Mexico in 1910; regent of the University of New Mexico 1916-1919; member of the Council of National Defense 1917-1919; chairman of the Bernalillo County draft board during the First World War; clerk of Bernalillo County in 1919 and 1920; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress and served from March 4, 1921, until his death in Washington, D.C., January 13, 1923; interment in Santa Barbara Cemetery, Albuquerque, N.Mex.
”Néstor Montoya” in Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-1995
. Prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by Carmen E. Enciso and Tracy North, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1995.
United States. 67th Congress, 4th session, 1923. House. Néstor Montoya. Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States in memory of Nestor Montoya, late a Representative from New Mexico
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1924.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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