Governor Edwin L. Mechem papers, 3rd term, 1957-1959.

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Governor Edwin L. Mechem papers, 3rd term, 1957-1959.

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Summary: Collection consists of official papers of Governor Mechem's third term, 1957-1958. Included are: correspondence; proclamations and appointments; speeches; legislative papers; reports; special reports; conservation papers; conference materials; and penal papers. Correspondence, appointments, proclamations, and reports pertain to various state administrative agencies. Legislative papers consist of the 23rd legislature's budget. Special reports include documentation on the drought situation, the Civil Aeronautics Board, the Federal Civil Defense Administration, and various other issues. Conservation papers pertain to a watershed project of the Otero Soil and Water Conservation District, the Arkansas-White-Red Basin, the Interstate Oil Compact, and the upper Rio Grande. Conference materials consist of several issues addressed by the Council of State Governors and a summary of the Western Governors Conference. Penal papers include pardons and extraditions.

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New Mexico. Governor (1957-1958 : Mechem)

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Edwin L. Mechem was born in Alamogordo, New Mexico in 1912. He was admitted to the New Mexico Bar in 1939, and served as a land surveyor for the U.S. Reclamation Service (1932-1933), and as an investigator for the Federal Bureau of Investigations during World War II. Mechem served four terms as Governor of New Mexico: first and second term, 1951-1954; third term, 1957-1958; and fourth term, 1961-1962. In 1962 Mechem resigned from the governorship to become a United States Senator and Lieutenant ...

Otero Soil and Water Conservation District.

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Interstate Oil Compact Commission

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Arkansas-White-Red Basins Inter-Agency Committee

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United States. Civil Aeronautics Board

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On November 3, 1958 the six airlines filed an agreement with the Civil Aeronautics Board which provided for certain mutual assistance in the event of a strike against one of them. The carriers still operating would make monthly payments of the increased revenues (less added direct expense) to the carrier which was shut down. Formal objections to the agreement were filed by the International Association of Machinists, the Brotherhood of Hallway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and ...

Mechem, Edwin L., 1912-

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Edwin Leard Mechem was born to Edwin Mechem and Eunice Leard Mechem on 2 July 1912 in Alamogordo, New Mexico. He was educated at New Mexico State University and the University of Arkansas Law School. He practiced law in Las Cruces; was an FBI agent during WWII; was elected to the state legislature in 1946; and served four terms as governor of New Mexico (1951-54; 1957-58; 1961-62). In 1962 he was appointed to the U.S. Senate filling Dennis Chávez's seat upon his death but lost re-election in 196...