David F. Cargo
David Francis Cargo (born January 13, 1929) was the 22nd Governor of New Mexico, having served between 1967 and 1971.
Cargo was born in Dowagiac, Michigan, the eldest of three children born to Francis and Mary (née Harton) Cargo. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (LLB: 1957).
He represented the Albuquerque area in the New Mexico House of Representatives from 1963 to 1967, when he was elected governor at the age of thirty-seven. As a representative he won one of the first lawsuits forcing proportional representation in the state legislature. He remains one of the youngest governors elected to date in U.S. history, along with Harold Stassen in Minnesota (1938), Bill Clinton in Arkansas (1978), Christopher "Kit" Bond and Matt Blunt in Missouri (1972) and (2004), respectively, and Bobby Jindal in Louisiana (2007).
Read more about David F. Cargo: Election As Governor, 1966 and 1968, Later Losing Campaigns
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