Francisco Perea
Francisco Perea was Union Army officer in the American Civil War and a cousin of Pedro Perea. He was a delegate for the Territory of New Mexico to the 38th United States Congress from March 4, 1863 to March 3, 1865.
Perea was born January 9, 1830 in Los Padillas, New Mexico in what is now Bernalillo County, near Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was the third child of Juan Perea and his wife, Josefa Chaves de Perea. He was a maternal grandson of Governor Francisco Xavier Chvez, the first Governor of the Departamento de Nuevo Mxico under the independent First Mexican Empire shortly after Mexican War of Independence from Spain ended in 1821. Perea attended select schools in Bernalillo County from 1836 to 1837 and at Santa Fe from 1837 to 1839. He enrolled at the Jesuit College, St. Louis, Missouri from 1843 to 1845 and received collegiate training at the Bank Street Academy in New York City 18471849. Before returning home, he and other classmates met President Zachary Taylor. After his departure, he contracted Cholera, but was able to recover.
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