Abraham Lincoln Zinn
U.S. House of Representatives
Charles Clever (1830-1874), served, 1867-1869, election overturned by U.S. House, 1869.
Governor, Acoma Pueblo
Solomon Bibo (1853-1934), 1885-ca. 1889.
Mayors
Henry Jaffa (1846-1901), Albuquerque, 1885-1886.
Michel (Mike) Mandell (1857-1950), Albuquerque, 1890-1891.
Nathan Jaffa, Roswell, 1891-1892 and Santa Fe, 1924-1926.
Joseph Jaffa, Roswell, 1897-1898.
Arthur Seligman, Santa Fe, 1910-1912.
Joseph Moise (1872-1963), Santa Rosa, 1914-1915.
Henry Lutz (1864-1939), Carrizozo, 1917-1918.
State Senators
Louis Ilfeld (1857-1938), Las Vegas (NM), 1912-1916, 1921-1924.
Albert Calisch (1859-1930), Montoya, 1917-1921.
Aron Eichwald (1860-1927), Cuba, 1921-1924.
Abraham Lincoln Zinn, Cuba, 1921-1924.
State Representatives
Arthur Morrison (1821-96), Las Vegas (NM), 1892-1893.
Bernard Seligman, Santa Fe, 1880-1882.
Ernest Meyers (1857-aft. 1933), Albuquerque, 1880-1882.
S. Epstein (u.-1932), Roswell, 1919-1921.
Henry Lutz, Carrizozo, 1921.
County Commission Presidents/Trustees
Isaac Cohen (1859-1917), Grant, 1877.
Solomon Spiegelberg, Santa Fe, 1880-1883.
Bernard Seligman, Santa Fe, 1884-1887.
Alfred Grunsfeld, Albuquerque, 1905-1918.
Arthur Seligman, Santa Fe, 1905-1906.
Nathan Jaffa, Roswell, 1891-1892.
Joseph Jaffa (1870-1936), Rosswell, 1897-1898.
City Council Presidents
Sigfried Grunsfeld (1862-17), Albuquerque, 1903.
Samuel Neustadt (1854-1911), Albuquerque, 1908-1910.
City/County Treasurers
Phoebus Freudenthal (1854-1922), Dona Ana County, 1888-1896.
Sigmund Lindauer (1851-1935), Grant County, 1888-1889.
Marcus Eldodt (1843-1920), Santa Fe, 1891-1892.
Sidney Prager (1869-1951), Roswell Village, 1895-1896.
Hyman Abraham (1859-1917), Silver City, 1897-1906.
Noa Ilfeld (1850-1931), Bernalillo County, 1897-1898.
Henry Lutz, Lincoln County, 1899-1904.
Michel (Mike) Mandell, Bernalillo County, 1912.
County Commission Members
Siegmund Seligman (1830-76 ), Santa Fe, 1876.
Lehman Spiegelberg, Santa Fe, 1877.
Isaac Cohen, Grant, 1877.
Solomon Spiegelberg, Santa Fe, 1878-1883.
Abraham Staab (1839-1913), Santa Fe, 1878, 1890.
Adolph Seligman (1843-1920), Santa Fe, 1882.
Bernard Seligman, Santa Fe, 1884-1887.
Arthur Seligman, Santa Fe, 1882.
Albert Grunsfeld, Bernalilla, 1905-1918.
City Council Members
Felix Mandell (1854-1929), Albuquerque, 1887.
Ferdinand Lowenthal (1854-1911), Albuquerque, 1888-1889.
Albert Grunsfeld, Albuquerque, 1895-1897.
Sidney Prager, Roswell Village, 1895-1896.
Samuel Neustadt, Albuquerque, 1898-1900, 1906-1910.
William Prager (1859-1919), Roswell, 1899-1900.
Sigfried Grunsfeld, Albuquerque, 1902-1904.
Louis Ilfeld, Albuquerque, 1904-1906.
Ivan Grunsfeld (1872-1933), Albuquerque, 1912-1916.
Morris Herzstein (1869-1928), Clayton, 1916.
Nathan Jaffa, East Las Vegas (NM), 1936-1937.
Source
- Mark Rutzik, Breaking New Ground: The Untold Story of Early America’s Jewish Electoral Pioneers – 1788 to 1920, 2025.
Mark Rutzick is the curator of this Jewish Officeholders exhibit.



