Roberto Mondragón

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Roberto Mondragón

|image = Roberto Mondragon2 (cropped).jpg

|office = 21st and 23rd Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico

|governor = Bruce King

|term_start = January 1, 1979

|term_end = January 1, 1983

|predecessor = Robert Ferguson

|successor = Mike Runnels

|governor1 = Bruce King

|term_start1 = January 1, 1971

|term_end1 = January 1, 1975

|predecessor1 = Elias Francis

|successor1 = Robert Ferguson

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|7|27}}

|birth_place = Anton Chico, New Mexico, U.S.

|death_date =

|death_place =

|party = Democratic {{small|(Before 1994; 1995–present)}}
Green {{small|(1994–1995)}}

}}

Roberto A. Mondragón (born July 27, 1940){{cite book|title=Who's who Among Hispanic Americans|author1=Unterburger, A.L.|author2=Gale Research Inc|author3=Delgado, J.L.|date=1994|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=9780810385504|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yd91AAAAMAAJ|accessdate=2015-07-07}} is an American politician, musician, and activist. He was the Green Party nominee for governor of New Mexico in 1994, receiving 10.4% of the vote (47,080 votes),{{cite web |url=http://www206.pair.com/calgreen/elections/races.php?raceId=1424 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021113225512/http://www206.pair.com/calgreen/elections/races.php?raceId=1424 |archive-date=2002-11-13 |title=Green Party Election Results}} and coming third, behind winner Gary Johnson and incumbent Democratic candidate Bruce King. Prior to this, he served as lieutenant governor of New Mexico from 1971 to 1975 and from 1979 to 1983,{{cite book|last=State of New Mexico|editor=Kathryn A. Flynn|others=Diana J. Duran|title=2012 Centennial Blue Book|url=http://www.sos.state.nm.us/Public_Records_And_Publications/NMCentennialBlueBook.pdf|date=July 2012|publisher=Office of the New Mexico Secretary of State|pages=218–219}} and as a state representative. He currently serves as special water projects coordinator for the New Mexico state engineer's office and the Interstate Stream Commission.{{cite web|url=http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/29065.html|title=指定条件の中古車(1ページ目)|中古車検索のカータウン|publisher=freenewmexican.com|accessdate=2015-07-07}} Mondragón later returned to the Democratic Party.{{cite web|url=http://www.uexpress.com/columnoftheamericas/?uc_full_date=19990903|title=uexpress|publisher=uexpress.com|accessdate=2015-07-07|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716225026/http://www.uexpress.com/columnoftheamericas/?uc_full_date=19990903|archivedate=2012-07-16}}

Mondragón recorded two albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Que Cante Mondragón and Amigo.{{cite book|last1=Montaño|first1=Mary|title=Tradiciones Nuevomexicanas : Hispano Arts and Culture of New Mexico|date=2001|publisher=University of New Mexico Press|location=Albuquerque|isbn=0826321372|page=178}} One of his early recordings is "Mi Carrito Paseado", a humorous, Spanglish, homage to a less than reliable automobile.{{cite web |url=http://www.folkways.si.edu/roberto-mondragon/mi-carrito-paseado/american-folk-gospel-latin/music/track/smithsonian |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007034623/http://www.folkways.si.edu/roberto-mondragon/mi-carrito-paseado/american-folk-gospel-latin/music/track/smithsonian |archive-date=2014-10-07 |title=Smithsonian Folkways}}

Mondragón is a partner in Aspectos Culturales, a non-profit, Santa Fe{{En dash}}based firm dedicated to maintaining Hispanic heritage.{{cite web |url=http://www.aspectosculturales.com/overview.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981202182358/http://www.aspectosculturales.com/overview.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=December 2, 1998 |title = Aspectos Culturales | Overview}}