Francisco Perea

Francisco Perea
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Mexico Territory's At-large district
In office
March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1865
(Delegate)
Preceded byJohn S. Watts
Succeeded byJosé Francisco Chaves
Personal details
BornJanuary 9, 1830 (1830-01-09)
Los Padillas, Nuevo México, First Mexican Republic
(now Bernalillo County, New Mexico, U.S.)
DiedMay 21, 1913(1913-05-21) (aged 83)
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
Resting placeFairview Cemetery, New Mexico
Political partyRepublican
RelativesDemi Lovato (great-great-great-granddaughter)
Occupationpolitician, businessman, postmaster
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/serviceUnited States Union Army
Years of service1861–1862
Rank
Lieutenant Colonel (U.S.)
CommandsPerea's Battalion
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War

Francisco Perea (January 9, 1830 – May 21, 1913) was an American businessman and politician, serving first in the House of the New Mexico Territory after the area's acquisition by the United States following the Mexican–American War. He was a cousin of Pedro Perea, and grandson of Governor Francisco Xavier Chávez,[1] the first Governor (1822–1823) of the Departamento de Nuevo México under the independent First Mexican Empire. Perea had a trade network along the Santa Fe Trail between St. Louis and Mexico.

During the American Civil War, Perea was commissioned as a Union Army lieutenant colonel, helping to defend the Territory. He was elected to serve as a delegate for the Territory of New Mexico to the 38th United States Congress from March 4, 1863, to March 3, 1865. After the war he served again in the Territorial legislature, and then as US postmaster of Jemez Springs from 1894 to 1905.

  1. ^ Twitchell, Ralph Emerson (1914). Old Santa Fe: a Magazine of History, Archaeology, Genealogy and..., Volume 1. Old Santa Fe Press, 1914. Retrieved 13 December 2011.