Andrew W. Hockenhull

Infobox Governor
name=Andrew W. Hockenhull


caption=
order=10th
office= Governor of New Mexico
term_start=September 25, 1933
term_end=January 1, 1935
lieutenant=
predecessor=Arthur Seligman
successor=Clyde Tingley
birth_date=birth date|1877|1|16|mf=y
birth_place=near Bolivar, Missouri
death_date=death date and age|1974|6|20|1877|1|16
death_place=Clovis, New Mexico
spouse=Mamie Drake
profession=Attorney
residence=Clovis
party= Democratic
religion=Baptist
footnotes=

Andrew W. Hockenhull (January 16, 1877–June 20, 1974) was the tenth Governor of New Mexico.

Hockenhull was born in rural Missouri. He attended Southwest Baptist College in Bolivar, Missouri, received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri–Columbia in 1897, and studied law at the University of Texas at Austin. Hockenhull married Mame Drake of Bolivar, Missouri on November 20, 1901, and had three daughters.

Hockenhull moved to New Mexico Territory in 1908 and began practicing law in Clovis in 1909. He also served as assistant district attorney (1912-1916), and city attorney for six years. A Democrat, Hockenhull was elected Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico in 1930 and was re-elected 1932. He became Governor upon the death of Governor Arthur Seligman in September, 1933, and completed the term in 1934.

He is, so far, the only Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico to assume the Governor's office due to the death of the sitting Governor. He also holds the title of the longest surviving former-Governor of New Mexico, living 97 years, and 40 years beyond the expiration of his term.