HM 46 — NM MILITARY MUSEUM & HURLEY FAMILY

HOUSEA MEMORIAL 46RECOGNIZING 57THE THSIGNIFICANCE LEGISLATURE- STATE OF NEWTHE MEXICOHURLEY -FAMILY'S SECONDCONTRIBUTIONS SESSION,TO 2026NEW INTRODUCEDMEXICO BYAND AlanTHE T.WORLD;

Martinez 6 8 10 A MEMORIAL RECOGNIZING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE HURLEY FAMILY'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO NEW MEXICO AND THE WORLD;

167 WHEREAS, Major General Patrick J.

Hurley, who brought his e t 17 family to New Mexico in 1935, was one of the greatest diplomats w l n d 18 and veterans of major world wars in history;

and = = 19 a l WHEREAS, General Hurley began his military career as a i a e r 20 captain in the Oklahoma national guard;

and a t m m 21 WHEREAS, General Hurley was a member of the American d r e 22 expeditionary force in World War I and was deployed to France, c e s k 23 during which time he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel;

e a n b 24 u [ and WHEREAS, he was appointed as assistant secretary of war .233422.1 and later secretary of war in the Hoover administration;

and HM 46 Page 1 WHEREAS, General Hurley also served as President Roosevelt's special representative to Russia and was the first American to visit the Eastern front;

and WHEREAS, for his military service, General Hurley received 14 several awards, including the army distinguished service medal with oak leaf cluster;

and World War I and e t 17 World War II victory medals;

and w l n d 18 WHEREAS, after retirement from military service, Patrick = = 19 Hurley served as president of the uranium institute of America, a l i a e r 20 a board member of the United Western Minerals company, a grand a t m m 21 consul of Sigma Chi fraternity and a member of Phi Beta Kappa;

d r e 22 and c e s k 23 WHEREAS, Patrick was active in New Mexico politics, e a n b 24 running as the Republican party candidate for a United States u [ senate seat in 1946, 1948 and 1952;

and .233422.1 - 2 - WHEREAS, Patrick was named to the New Mexico hall of fame, and after his 1963 passing, he was called "one of New Mexico's truly great men" by then-Governor Jack M.

and WHEREAS, Wilson Hurley attended the Los Alamos ranch school, studied under New Mexico artists such as John Young- HM 46 Page 2 Hunter, Theodore Van Soelen and Doel Reed and later attended the United States military academy at West Point, where he graduated in June 1945;

and WHEREAS, Wilson served as a pilot in the United States army air corps and the United States air force, which included 14 a thirty-month tour in the Philippines and south Pacific;

and WHEREAS, Wilson returned to New Mexico in 1952 to practice law after completing law school at George Washington university e t 17 and soon began flying with the 188th tactical fighter squadron w l n d 18 of the New Mexico air national guard;

and = = 19 WHEREAS, Wilson was deployed as a United States air force a l i a e r 20 liaison and forward air controller in the Vietnam conflict and a t m m 21 the Korea conflict, during which time he achieved the rank of d r e 22 lieutenant colonel and received the distinguished flying cross;

c e s k 23 and e a n b 24 WHEREAS, Wilson gave up his law practice at the age of u [ forty to devote himself full time to painting;

and .233422.1 - 3 - WHEREAS, since his first solo art exhibition at the Panhandle-Plains historical museum in Canyon, Texas, in 1971, Wilson has had more than one thousand two hundred paintings sold to private and corporate collectors, and at least eleven museums across the nation hold collections of his paintings;

and WHEREAS, Wilson's work has won numerous awards for his HM 46 Page 3 artistic talent, including the 1977 trustees' award from the national cowboy hall of fame, the 1984 prix de west award from the national academy of western art and the Eiteljorg museum of American Indians and western art award for excellence in western art in 1991;

and WHEREAS, Wilson was named a fellow of the American society 14 of aviation artists, was elected to the Oklahoma hall of fame in 1996 and the Tulsa hall of fame in 2001 and became the Albuquerque museum foundation's second notable New Mexican in e t 17 2002;

and w l n d 18 WHEREAS, many of Wilson's large-scale landscape paintings = = 19 are on display in public buildings, including the Albuquerque a l i a e r 20 international sunport and the Oklahoma state capitol;

and a t m m 21 WHEREAS, the New Mexico military museum was established to d r e 22 honor the service and sacrifice of New Mexicans in the armed c e s k 23 forces, originating as the Bataan memorial museum honoring the e a n b 24 state's national guard units involved in World War II and the u [ lives of those lost in the Bataan death march;

and .233422.1 - 4 - WHEREAS, the museum is housed in a historic Santa Fe armory and now preserves and interprets New Mexico's full military history across all eras and conflicts;

and WHEREAS, in 2025, the museum inducted Wilson Hurley into the New Mexico national guard's hall of honor, and the museum HM 46 Page 4 is hosting an exhibition of Wilson Hurley's work beginning February 12, 2026;

and 14 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be transmitted to the department of military affairs, the adjutant general of New Mexico, the director of the New Mexico military e t 17 museum and the chair of the New Mexico military museum w l n d 18 foundation.

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