This collection includes ephemera from Deb Haaland's congressional campaign and time in office.
Scope and Contents:
This collection contains mailouts, official stationery, ephemera, and five color photographs from Deb Haaland's congressional campaign and time in the U.S. House of Representatives for New Mexico's 1st district.
Arrangement:
This collection is arranged in one series.
Deb Haaland:
Debra Anne Haaland is a politician and member of the Laguna Pueblo community. She was born December 2, 1960, in Winslow, Arizona. Both of her parents served in the military and the family moved frequently before settling in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Haaland earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1994 and a Juris Doctorate in Indian Law in 2006, both from the University of New Mexico.
Haaland's career in public service began when she became the first woman elected to the Laguna Development Corporation Board of Directors. She also served as tribal administrator for San Felipe Pueblo. In 2012, she took an active part of Barack Obama's reelection campaign as New Mexico's vote director for Native Americans and served as the chair of the Democratic Party of New Mexico Native American Caucus. She continued to move forward in her career, and in 2015 was elected as the chair of the New Mexico Democratic Party. She rebuilt the state party and raised enough money to pay off seven years of debt accrued by previous chairs.
In 2018, Haaland ran for U.S. House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district. She won with 59.1% of the vote in a Democratic Party sweep of every state and federal office that year. Haaland was one of the first two Native American woman to be elected to congress. She became the first woman to preside over the House of Representatives during a 2019 debate of voting rights. In 2020, she was reelected with 58.2% of the vote.
Haaland became the first Native American Cabinet secretary in 2021 when the senate confirmed her appoint by President Biden as Secretary of the Interior. She wore traditional Laguna Pueblo regalia and a ribbon skirt for her swearing in ceremony. She has worked to further many important causes, creating Department of the Interior units and task forces to address the crisis of missing and murdered Native Americans, investigate abuse in Indian boarding schools, and replace derogatory language.
Provenance:
Gift from the Congressional Office of Representative Debra A. Haaland, 2021
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Topic:
United States Government--Legislative Branch Search this
Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Deb Haaland congressional collection; image #, NMAI.AC.412; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
on back: a description of the eulogy on President McKinley, February 27, 1902.
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Collection Rights:
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Memorial services in the Congress of the United States and tributes in eulogy of Richard Brevard Russell late a Senator from the State of Georgia Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing
Author:
United States 92d Congress, 1st session, 1971 Search this
United States Congress Joint Committee on Printing Search this
