in the Senate, where he served on the Appropriations Committee, the Public Works Committee, the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, and Senate Watergate Committee. In 1976, a year that was a Democratic victory nationwide, Montoya was defeated by Republican Harrison Schmitt 57% to 42%. Death Montoya died in Washington, D.C., at the age of 62. See also List of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States Congress List of minority governors and lieutenant governors in the United States References External links Inventory of the Joseph M. Montoya Papers, 1913–1977, Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico. |- |- |- |- 1915 births 1978 deaths 20th-century American politicians American people of Spanish descent Georgetown University Law Center alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New Mexico Democratic Party United States senators from New Mexico Hispanic and Latino American state legislators in New Mexico Hispanic and Latino American members of the United States Congress Lieutenant Governors of New Mexico Democratic Party members of the New Mexico House of Representatives Neomexicanos Democratic Party New Mexico state senators Regis University alumni Watergate scandal investigators