Tranquilino Luna
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Tranquilino Luna
| image name = Tranquilino Luna.jpg
| birth_date= February 25, 1849
| birth_place= Los Lunas, New Mexico Territory
| death_date = {{death date and age|1892|11|20|1849|2|25}}
| death_place = Peralta, New Mexico Territory
| state = New Mexico Territory
| district = {{ushr|New Mexico Territory|AL|At-large}}
| term_start= March 4, 1881
| term_end= March 5, 1884
(Delegate)
| preceded = Mariano S. Otero
| succeeded = Francisco A. Manzanares
| party = Republican
| alma_mater = University of Missouri
}}
Tranquilino Luna (February 25, 1849 – November 20, 1892) was a Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Territory of New Mexico. Born in Los Lunas, New Mexico, Luna attended the public schools and graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. He engaged extensively in stock raising.
Luna served as delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1880 and 1888. Luna was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883). He presented credentials as a Delegate-elect to the Forty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1883, until March 5, 1884, when he was succeeded by Francisco A. Manzanares, who contested his election. After leaving Congress, he was the Sheriff of Valencia County, New Mexico, from 1888 to 1892. He died in Peralta, New Mexico, on November 20, 1892, and was buried in Los Lunas Cemetery in Los Lunas, New Mexico.
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Category:Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from New Mexico Territory
Category:University of Missouri alumni
Category:American politicians of Mexican descent
Category:Hispanos of New Mexico
Category:Hispanic and Latino American members of the United States Congress
Category:New Mexico Republicans
Category:People from Los Lunas, New Mexico
Category:19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives