Abraham Lincoln Zinn
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Abraham Lincoln Zinn (1893-1957) was an attorney and rancher who won election to the New Mexico senate in 1920.
In 1923 he became Democratic floor leader and later served as Gallup city attorney.
In 1932 he won election as a justice on the New Mexico Supreme Court and was re-elected twice, becoming Chief Justice.
Zinn resigned from the Supreme Court in 1943 and enlisted in the U.S. Army as an intelligence officer at the age of fifty, with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Zinn served through the end of the war in the China-Burma-India theater.
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 Abraham Lincoln Zinn exhibit.