{"id":4005,"date":"2008-11-20T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/former-state-representative-dies\/"},"modified":"2008-11-20T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T22:48:00","slug":"former-state-representative-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/former-state-representative-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Former state representative dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Former state Rep. Russell Autrey, who also served as a deputy chief of staff Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garrey_Carruthers\" target=\"_blank\">Garrey Carruthers<\/a>, has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Autrey, who from 1977-1980 was the representative for the seat currently held by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HGUTI\" target=\"_blank\">Joni Gutierrez<\/a>, D-Mesilla, died Nov. 14 in Las Vegas, Nev., according to an obituary published earlier this week in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/LCSun-News\/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&amp;PersonID=120331943\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a>. He was in Las Vegas \u201cto complete a construction project,\u201d according to the obituary, but was living in Anchorage, Alaska.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Autrey was vice chair of the House Appropriations and Finance Committee from 1979-1980, according to legislative records. At the time of his service in the House, he lived in Mesilla Park. He was also a high-ranking staffer for Carruthers, who was governor from 1987-1991.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Autrey is survived by a daughter, two sisters, nephews, nieces, cousins and friends, the obituary states. No services are planned at this time. His age and cause of death were not included in the obituary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former state Rep. Russell Autrey, who also served as a deputy chief of staff Gov. Garrey Carruthers, has died. Autrey, who from 1977-1980 was the representative for the seat currently held by Joni Gutierrez, D-Mesilla, died Nov. 14 in Las Vegas, Nev., according to an obituary published earlier this week in the Las Cruces Sun-News. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}