Mariano Sabino OTERO, Congress, NM (1844-1904)

OTERO, Mariano Sabino, (nephew of Miguel Antonio Otero), a Delegate from the Territory of New Mexico; born in Peralta, Valencia County, N.Mex., August 29, 1844; attended private and parochial schools and St. Louis University, Missouri; engaged in commercial pursuits and stock raising, and subsequently became a banker; probate judge of Bernalillo County 1871-1879; nominated by the Democratic State convention as a candidate for Delegate to the Forty-fourth Congress, but declined; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1880; engaged in his former business pursuits; commissioner of Bernalillo County 1884-1886; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress and in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; moved to Albuquerque, N.Mex., in 1889; interested in the manufacture of sulphur and engaged in banking; died in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, N.Mex., February 1, 1904; interment in Santa Barbara Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present