Word: apodaca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the new agency a fait accompli, interest turned immediately to Carter's choice for department secretary. The good money is on former New Mexico Gov. Jerry Apodaca, a Chicano with a longtime interest in education, who just happened to be poking around Washington's education community this week...
Others, however, feel Apodaca has come on too strong, and that he is too political an appointment...
...TIME'S young leaders left office. Two Democrats retired: Senator James Abourezk of South Dakota and Representative Barbara Jordan of Texas. Democratic Governors Jerry Apodaca of New Mexico and Reubin Askew of Florida were ineligible to run for second terms. Democratic Governor Richard Kneip of South Dakota resigned to become U.S. Ambassador to Singapore...
...Robert Garcia, 45, of New York; Henry Gonzalez, 62, and Kika de la Garza, 51, of Texas. Since the defeat of the late Joseph Montoya of New Mexico in 1976, there have been no Hispanic members of the Senate. There is only one Hispanic Governor: New Mexico's Jerry Apodaca, and he cannot succeed himself when his term expires in January. Mexican-American ballots nailed down Texas' 26 electoral votes for Jimmy Carter in 1976, and he reciprocated by appointing more Hispanics to federal positions than any of his predecessors. But, while they hold 112 of 1,201 presidentially assigned...
...lame-duck Governor, New Mexico's Jerry Apodaca looks suspiciously like a healthy road runner. Apodaca, 43, has spent the past six weeks chugging through the hills [ near the executive mansion, trying to get in shape for the Boston Marathon on April 17. "Monday through Friday I run eight miles a day and on the weekend I do ten miles a day-except when I'm getting tired," says the Governor, a veteran jogger and former running back at the University of New Mexico. Apodaca's longest previous race was a 13-miler...