- Frank Willey Clancy
Frank Willey Clancy (
15 January 1852 -01 September 1928 ) wasAttorney General of New Mexico (1909-1916), as well as Mayor ofAlbuquerque (1898).*1852: Born
15 January 1852 atDover, New Hampshire . Son of Michael Albert Clancy and Lydia Ardilla Willey. Brother of Harry Smith Clancy.
*1873: LL. B from law school atColumbian University , nowGeorge Washington University , inWashington, DC .
*1874-1877: Lived inAlbuquerque ,New Mexico .
*1874: Admitted to bar in New Mexico.
*1875-1876: Clerk of District court Second District inAlbuquerque .
*1877-1879: Lived in East.
*1877: Secretary to Assistant Secretary of Treasury, R.C. McCormick.
*1877-1879: Secretary to same as U.S. Commissioner-General to Paris Exposition.
*1879-1891: Lived inSanta Fe, New Mexico .
*1879: Married Charlotte Jane Cawthorne Swallow on30 October 1879 . She was daughter of Reverend Benjamin Swallow, and was born in London, England.
*1879-1883: Clerk of District and Supreme Courts in New Mexico.
*1889: Member ofNew Mexico Constitutional Convention .
*1891: President ofNew Mexico Bar Association .
*1892: Moved back toAlbuquerque .
*1892-1909: Regent atUniversity of New Mexico .
*1896: Attorney; lived at 314 N. 6th Street.
*1898-1899: Mayor ofAlbuquerque from April 1898 to April 1899.
*1901-1909:District Attorney forBernalillo County .
*1906: Delegate toNew Mexico Constitutional Convention .
*1909-1916:Attorney General of New Mexico. Lived at 911 W. Copper.
*1912: Governor McDonald requested Clancy to determine the boundary between New Mexico and Texas.
*????-????: Special Counsel for New Mexico in suits against Colorado and Texas.
*1913-1914: President ofTerritorial Board of Equalization . Lived in Santa Fe.
*1923-1924: President ofNew Mexico Historical Society .
*1928: Died 01 September 1928 in Santa Fe.See also
http://www.worldstatesmen.org/US_Mayors.html#Albuquerque
Sources, and Further Reading
*Agnew, Vesta. "Mayors of Albuquerque", "New Mexico Genealogist", Volume VII, Number 1 (March 1968), pp. 7.
*"Attorney General Clancy Passes Away at Home Here", "Santa Fe Mew Mexican",1 September 1928 , p. 4.
*Coan, Charles F. "A History of New Mexico". Volume III. Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1925.
*"Frank W. Clancy: Last of Old Lawyers Who Were Here in 1877". "Santa Fe New Mexican",4 September 1928 , pp. 4.
*"History of New Mexico: Its Resources and People". Volume I. New York: Pacific States Publishing, 1907.
*Keleher, William A. "Memoirs, 1892-1969: A New Mexico Item". Santa Fe: Rydal, 1969.
*"Monument for Glorieta Battle Field". "El Palacio", Volume. XV, Number 8 (13 October 1923 ), pp. 135-136.
*Twitchell, Ralph Emerson. "The Leading Facts of New Mexican History". Volume II and Volume V. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Torch Press, 1912, 1917.
*W, P.A.F. "Necrology: Frank W. Clancy", "New Mexico Historical Review", Volume 3, pp. 421-425.
*"Who Was Who in America: A Companion Volume to Who's Who in America". Volume I, 1897-1942: Biographies of the Non-living with Dates of Deaths Appended. Chicago: A.N. Marques, 1943.
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