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On January 6, President William Howard Taft signs New Mexico’s statehood bill, making New Mexico the 47th state.
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New Mexico’s first state governor, William C. McDonald, is inaugurated.
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New Mexico’s first congressmen and senators are sworn into office in Washington, D.C
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In 1913, fifteen separate railroads were operating in New Mexico.
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U. S. Supreme Court rules that Congress has authority over Pueblos similar to that for other tribes and can prohibit the introduction of liquor into “Indian Country”.
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On the 14th of October 1913 the first issue of El Palacio magazine. This was the first museum magazine in the U.S.
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In approximately April, the Taos Society of Artists was formed.
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In 1915, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that Congress has authority over Pueblos similar to that for other tribes and can prohibit liquor in "Indian Country"
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Pancho Villa’s Mexican revolutionaries conducted a raid on Columbus, New Mexico, later pursued into Mexico by General “Blackjack” Pershing and his U. S. Army troops, including some from the New Mexico National Guard .
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Elephant Butte Dam, , the second largest irrigation dam in the world, opens in 1916.
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In November 9th, this monument was named after anthropologist Adolph F. A. Bandelier.
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In 1917, the Art Gallery of the Museum of New Mexico opened, which later became the Museum of Fine Art, now the New Mexico Museum of Art.
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New Mexico National Guard is activated for service in France as U.S. entered World War I in 1917.
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The Los Alamos Ranch School was founded by Ashley Pond in 1918.
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Mabel Dodge Stern was a wealthy banking heiress. She moved to Taos which attracted many artists and writers. One of these including D. H. Lawrence.
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New Mexico became one of the last states to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women voting rights.
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In 1922, the first Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial is held at Gallup
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The Colorado River Compact allocates 7.5 million acre-feet of water from the upper basin states of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico in 1922.
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Gila Wilderness is established in southwest New Mexico with more than 550,000 acres in 1923
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Based on the U.S. economy in 1929, the stock markets dropped dramatically and this entered the Great Depression where one out of 4 men didn't have a job.