lieutenant death_date birth_date residence term_end death_place profession order term_start spouse name predecessor birth_place party office governor successor religion article_title
'' vacant '' 20 may 1998 18 may 1918 farmington january 1 , 1963 november 30 , 1962 farmington , new mexico oilman 20th 18th november 30 , 1962 january 1 , 1961 alice schwerdtfeger tom bolack edwin l. mechem ed v. mead cowley county , kansas republican governor of new mexico lieutenant governor of new mexico edwin l. mechem jack m. campbell mack easley methodism tom bolack

tom bolack

thomas felix `` tom '' bolack -lrb- may 18 , 1918 -- may 20 , 1998 -rrb- was a new mexico businessman and politician , who served as the 20th governor of new mexico for 32 days in 1962 -- 63 .
bolack was a self-educated oilman who learned geology from correspondence courses .
he was also a rancher and owner of the albuquerque dukes minor-league baseball team from 1956 to 1963 .
