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Henry Connelly (1800–1866) served as the Republican Governor of the New Mexico Territory from 1861 until 1866 during the American Civil War. During his term, the territory broke into two, and then three during Connelly's tenure due to the Civil War and administrative problems.

Connelly was born in Spencer County, Kentucky. He received a medical degree from Transylvania University in 1828. He moved to Liberty, Missouri where he practiced medicine and ran a store. In 1838 he married a Mexican woman in Chihuahua, Mexico. They had three children. Sometime in the 1840s he moved to Peralta, New Mexico. After the death of his first wife Connelly married the widow Delores Perea.

In 1861 Connelly was the main force behind the reapeal of the New Mexico Slave Act.

[edit] Sources

• article about Connelly and the Civil War in New Mexico
• Find a Grave article on Connelly

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NAME	Connelly, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Enrique Connelly
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Governor of New Mexico Territory
DATE OF BIRTH	1800
PLACE OF BIRTH	Virginia
DATE OF DEATH	1866
PLACE OF DEATH	Santa Fe, New Mexico

Henry Connelly was born in either Kentucky or Virginia, depending on which resource is found. He graduated medical school in Kentucky in 1828 and moved to Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. This same year he left Missouri for Chihuahua, Mexico, and worked as a clerk there and later purchased the store. He married there in 1838 and had three children. Prior to the United States war with Mexico, he moved his children briefly to Missouri and when it was over, he moved his family back to Chihuahua. His wife died shortly after.

By 1848 he had moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, established homes also in Bernalillo County & Peralta and remarried.

(the above taken from the reading of "The History of the Military Occupation of the Territory of New Mexico from 1846 to 1851" by Ralph Emerson Twitchell, 1909)

In the 1850 Federal Census for the Territory of New Mexico, Bernalillo County, page 87, lines 25-32, we find him listed as the head of household with the following people listed in this home-

Henry Comelly - 49

Dalvies Comelly - 35 (his wife, Dolores (Perea) Chavez, widow of Jose Chavez)

Josefa Charvis - 11 (all "Charvis" should be spelled Chavez)

Bomipcia Charvis - 8 (Bonifacio, from Dolores' previous marriage)

Victorianra Charvis - 1 (Victoria)

Gregoria Charvis - 35 (sister in law?)

Rosa Charvis - 22 (unknown relationship)

Franco Garcia - 12 (unknown relationship)

note: The handwritten census is not too difficult to read and the transcriptions above are Genealogy.coms, not mine. I know this is Henry Connelly and Dolores. It is easy to decipher from the original document.

Sources- http://www.sangres.com/newmexico/valencia/bosquefarms.htm This marriage history is also reiterated at - http://www.bosquefarms.us/village_history.htm and page 281 of "War with Mexico, 1846-1847: Doniphan's Expedition and the Conquest of New Mexico"

 By William Elsey Connelley. 

Henry Connelly also served as the representative for Bernalillo County in the New Mexico Territorial Legislature for the following terms-

3rd & 4th Assembly- 1853-1855

6th, 7th and 8th Assembly- 1856-1859