$400
11"x13.5" Original acrylic canvas painting by MG Salazar.
"Soledad Chávez Chacón, or “Lala” as she was affectionately known, was born in Albuquerque in 1890. Raised middle-class in a prominent and political Hispano family, Chacón was afforded the privilege of an education. She graduated from the Albuquerque College of Business in 1908, four years before New Mexico became a state. Because of her education and activism in civic, literary and service organizations such as el Club Literario, the Women’s Club and the Minerva Club, Chacón was encouraged by Democratic power brokers of the time to get involved with state politics. In 1922 she was nominated and elected secretary of state–the first woman elected to state office in New Mexico." - Patricia Trujillo, Ms. Magazine.