Houghton, Joab, 1810-1876
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found: Collection on New Mexican territorial history, 1526-1924(Joab Houghton, judge in New Mexico)
found: Wikipedia, March 23, 2016(Joab Houghton; Joab Houghton (1811-January 31, 1876) was an American lawyer and judge who served as the first Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court; Houghton was born in New York in 1811; he attended college and then worked as a civil engineer; Houghton arrived in New Mexico in 1843, traveling over the Santa Fe Trail on a trading expedition; he entered into a mercantile partnership in Santa Fe with brothers Eugene and Thomas Leitensdorfer, doing business as E. Leitensdorfer & Co. from 1844 until 1848, when it went bankrupt; Houghton also began a partnership with Jared W. Folger in 1847, operating as Houghton & Folger; though lacking any legal education, he was appointed Chief Justice when New Mexico was occupied by the United States in 1846 during the Mexican-American War; in 1850, Houghton led an anti-slavery faction in the drafting of New Mexico's proposed constitution during its first attempt at statehood; his service as Chief Justice ended in 1851, and he practiced law in Santa Fe, as he would during much of his life, and also served as a district attorney during the American Civil War; Houghton was again appointed a justice on the Supreme Court of New Mexico Territory from 1865 to 1869; he made numerous political enemies, and his rulings regarding property confiscated during the Civil War were widely criticized as contrary to basic legal principles; after his replacement on the bench, Houghton spent his last years in private legal practice; he died in Las Vegas, New Mexico)
found: Our Houghton heritage, 1995:page 60 (Joab Houghton; son of William and Margaret (Sexton) Houghton; born February 25, 1810; died January 31, 1876; Joab moved to New Mexico in 1844 when the area was Mexican territory and later became a territorial judge)
found: ancestry.com, March 23, 2016(Joab Houghton; born February 25, 1810; died January 31, 1876 in Las Vegas, San Miguel Co., NM)
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2016-03-24: revised
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