Ortiz y Pino family.

The Ortiz family has been prominent in New Mexican history and politics since before the Territorial Period. Pedro Bautista Pino was elected to represent the Province of New Mexico to the Spanish Cortes (the Spanish Parliament) in Cádiz, Spain, from the inception of this institution in 1810 to its dissolution by Fernando VII in 1814. Pino was the first legislator of the territory. Pedro Bautista Pino's grandson, José Ortiz y Pino, and his great-granddaughter, Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven, followed in his footsteps (in keeping with a promise made by the first legislator that each generation of his family would serve the government), becoming legislators themselves. In addition to her position as the first female majority whip in the House of Representatives, where she served from 1936-1942, Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven's work as a research assistant in the Washington Office of the Historical Records Survey, as a member of the advisory committee on women's participation in the 1939 World Fair in New York, as a correspondent regarding the Coronado Cuarto Centennial celebration in 1940, as president of the Santa Fe Women's Aero Club and as a proponent for bilingual education in New Mexico are also reflected in this collection,