# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwin-l-mechem
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:42:03.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edwin-l-mechem"
name: "Edwin L. Mechem"
slug: "edwin-l-mechem"
description: "Edwin Leard Mechem was an American attorney, politician, and jurist from New Mexico. He served as the 15th, 17th, and 19th governor of New Mexico, the first person born in the 20th century to become the state's governor, as well as the first person born in New Mexico after statehood to ascend to the office. During his final term as governor, Mechem appointed himself as a United States Senator, pursuant to the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. During his tenure, he was one of five non-Southern Republicans in the Senate to vote against the Civil Rights Act 1964. He was defeated in his bid to keep his senate seat in the 1964 United States Senate election in New Mexico. He later served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico."
tagline: "American judge and politician (1912–2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edwin_Mechem.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1912-07-02"
deathDate: "2002-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5851063829787234
  historical:           8.754825333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump