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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New MexicoFrancisco PEREA
(1830-1913)
PEREA, Francisco, (cousin
of Pedro Perea), a Delegate from the Territory of New Mexico; born
in Los Padillas, N.Mex. (then in the Republic of Mexico), January
9, 1830; attended select schools in Bernalillo County and at Santa
Fe 1836-1839; enrolled at the Jesuit College, St. Louis, Mo.,
1843-1845 and received collegiate training at the Bank Street
Academy in New York City 1847-1849; from 1850 to 1864 was engaged
in stock raising and commercial pursuits and in carrying
merchandise by mule train from St. Louis and Independence, Mo., to
Mexico; member of the Territorial council in 1858, 1866, and 1884;
during the Civil War served as lieutenant colonel of Perea’s
Battalion in 1861 and 1862; delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1864; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth
Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1864; moved from Bernalillo County to Jemez
Springs, Sandoval County, N.Mex., in 1881; proprietor of the
springs and a hotel; postmaster of Jemez Springs 1894-1905; moved
to Albuquerque, N.Mex., in 1906 and died there May 21, 1913;
interment in Fairview Cemetery.
Bibliography
Allison, W. H. H. “Colonel Francisco Perea,” in Ralph
Emerson Twitchell, ed. Old Santa Fe. Volume I, 1913-1914:
208-222.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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