Today, I'd like you to meet one of the most significant people in New Mexico political history that almost no one's ever heard of: Soledad Chávez Chacón.
Why one of the most important?
Because she was the first Hispanic woman in New Mexico to be elected to statewide office, the first woman in the state to serve as Acting Governor, and the first woman in the entire country to be elected as her state's Secretary of State. In 1922.
