Frank Willey Clancy

Frank Willey Clancy (15 January 1852 - 01 September 1928) was Attorney General of New Mexico (1909-1916), as well as Mayor of Albuquerque (1898).

*1852: Born 15 January 1852 at Dover, New Hampshire. Son of Michael Albert Clancy and Lydia Ardilla Willey. Brother of Harry Smith Clancy.
*1873: LL. B from law school at Columbian University, now George Washington University, in Washington, DC.
*1874-1877: Lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
*1874: Admitted to bar in New Mexico.
*1875-1876: Clerk of District court Second District in Albuquerque.
*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 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
*1879: Married Charlotte Jane Cawthorne Swallow on 30 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 of New Mexico Constitutional Convention.
*1891: President of New Mexico Bar Association.
*1892: Moved back to Albuquerque.
*1892-1909: Regent at University of New Mexico.
*1896: Attorney; lived at 314 N. 6th Street.
*1898-1899: Mayor of Albuquerque from April 1898 to April 1899.
*1901-1909: District Attorney for Bernalillo County.
*1906: Delegate to New 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 of Territorial Board of Equalization. Lived in Santa Fe.
*1923-1924: President of New 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.