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In observance of New Mexico's Centennial Celebration, this series of caches is set up to honor the men(and one woman) who have led this state.

Each cache is a puzzle cache. The cache is not at the posted location. You will have to read the biography of each Governor and apply some basic math principles to numeric data contained in the biographies. A calculator is not required, but may be helpful. Most of the caches are fairly easy to find, but a few may be tricky.

Gary Johnson

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Gary Johnson

29th Governor of New Mexico
In office January 1, 1995 – January 1, 2003
Lieutenant	Walter Bradley
Preceded by	Bruce King
Succeeded by	Bill Richardson
Personal details
Born	Gary Earl Johnson (1953-01-01) January 1, 1953 (age 59) Minot, North Dakota, U.S.
Political party	Libertarian (2011–present)
Other political affiliations	Republican Party (before 2011)
Spouse(s)	Dee Simms (1977–2005)
Domestic partner	Kate Prusack (fiancée; 2009–present)
Alma mater	University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Gary Earl Johnson (born January 1, 1953) is an American businessman, a former Governor of New Mexico, and the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election.^[1] Johnson served as the 29th Governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003, as a member of the Republican Party, and is known for his low-tax libertarian views and his strong emphasis on personal health and fitness. While a student at the University of New Mexico in 1974, Johnson sustained himself financially by working as a door-to-door handyman. In 1976 he founded Big J Enterprises, which grew from this one-person venture to become one of New Mexico's largest construction companies.^[2] He entered politics for the first time by running for Governor of New Mexico in 1994 on a fiscally conservative, low-tax, anti-crime platform.^[3] Johnson won the Republican Party of New Mexico's gubernatorial nomination, and defeated incumbent Democratic governor Bruce King by 50% to 40%. He cut the 10% annual growth in the budget: in part, due to his use of the gubernatorial veto 200 times during his first six months in office,^[2] which gained him the nickname "Governor Veto".^[4]^[5]
Johnson sought re-election in 1998, winning by 55% to 45%. In his second term, he concentrated on the issue of school voucher reforms,^[6] as well as campaigning for marijuana decriminalization and opposition to the War on Drugs. During his tenure as governor, Johnson adhered to a stringent anti-tax and anti-bureaucracy policy driven by a cost–benefit analysis rationale, setting state and national records for his use of veto powers:^[2] more than the other 49 contemporary governors put together.^[7] Term-limited, Johnson could not run for re-election at the end of his second term. As a fitness enthusiast,^[9]^[10] Johnson has taken part in several Ironman Triathlons, and he climbed Mount Everest in May 2003.^[11] After leaving office, Johnson founded the non-profit Our America Initiative in 2009, a political advocacy committee seeking to promote policies such as free enterprise, foreign non-interventionism, limited government and privatization.
Johnson announced his candidacy for President on April 21, 2011, as a Republican,^[12] on a libertarian platform emphasizing the United States public debt and a balanced budget through a 43% reduction of all federal government spending, protection of civil liberties, an immediate end to the War in Afghanistan and his advocacy of the FairTax. On December 28, 2011, after being excluded from the majority of the Republican Party's presidential debates and failing to gain traction while campaigning for the New Hampshire primary, he withdrew his candidacy for the Republican nomination and announced that he would continue his presidential campaign as a candidate for the nomination of the Libertarian Party.^[13] He won the Libertarian Party nomination on May 5, 2012. His vice-presidential running mate is Judge James P. Gray of California.

Early life and career

Johnson was born on January 1, 1953 in Minot, North Dakota, the son of Lorraine B. (née Bostow), who worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Earl W. Johnson, a public school teacher.^[14] His father was of half Danish and half Norwegian ancestry, and his mother was of Russian descent.^[15]^[16] Johnson graduated from Sandia High School in Albuquerque in 1971, where he was on the school track team.^[17] He attended the University of New Mexico from 1971 to 1975 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science.^[18] It was there that he met his future wife, Denise "Dee" Simms. While in college, Johnson earned money as a door-to-door handyman.^[19] His success in that arena encouraged him to start his own business, Big J Enterprises, in 1976. When he started the business, which focused on mechanical contracting, Johnson was its only employee.^[20] His major break with the firm was receiving a large contract from Intel's expansion in Rio Rancho, which increased Big J's revenue to $38 million.^[16] Over-stretched by his success, Johnson enrolled in a time management course at night school, which he credits with making him heavily goal-driven.^[16] He eventually grew Big J into a multi-million dollar corporation with over 1,000 employees.^[21] By the time he sold the company in 1999, it was one of New Mexico's leading construction companies.^[22]

Johnson was married to Dee Johnson née Simms (1952–2006) from 1977 to 2005.^[94] As First Lady of New Mexico, she engaged in campaigns against smoking and breast cancer,^[95] and oversaw the enlargement of the Governor's Mansion. He initiated a separation in May 2005, and announced they were getting divorced four months later.^[96] Dee Johnson died unexpectedly on December 22, 2006, at the age of 54.^[97] It was established in February 2007 that her death was caused by hypertensive heart disease.^[98] Syndicated columnist John Dendahl expressed shock upon her death, as she had been "very vivacious" only two weeks previously. After her death, Johnson said, "People couldn't have gotten a better number one volunteer, because that's what she was. Whatever [the issue] was, she had a caring approach."^[97] Johnson and his late wife have two grown children:^[94] a daughter, Seah (born 1979), and a son, Erik (born 1982).^[99]
Johnson is now engaged to Santa Fe real estate agent Kate Prusack, whom he began dating in 2008 after meeting on a bike ride. Johnson proposed in 2009 on the chair lift at Taos Ski Valley Resort in New Mexico.^[100] He lives with Prusack in Taos, New Mexico,^[101]^[102] in a home that he built himself.^[53] Johnson is an avid triathlete who bikes extensively and abstains from all recreational drug use, caffeine, alcohol, and some sugar products. During his term in office, he competed in several triathlons, marathons and bike races. He competed three times (1993, 1997, 1999) as celebrity invitee at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii, registering his best time for the 2.4-mile (3.9 km) swim, 112-mile (180 km) bike ride, and 26.2-mile (42.2 km) marathon run in 1999 with 10 hours, 39 minutes and 16 seconds.^[103]^[104] He once ran 100 miles (160 km) in 30 consecutive hours in the Rocky Mountains.^[16] On May 30, 2003, he reached the summit of Mount Everest ^[11] "despite toes blackened with frostbite."^[25] He has also climbed three more of the Seven Summits: Mount Elbrus, Mount McKinley, and Mount Kilimanjaro—the tallest peaks in Europe, North America, and Africa respectively. He ran in the 25-mile Bataan Memorial Death March in New Mexico, in which participants run in the desert in combat boots while wearing 35-pound packs.^[105] On October 12, 2005, Johnson was involved in a near fatal paragliding accident when his wing got caught in a tree and he fell approximately 50 feet to the ground. Johnson suffered multiple bone fractures, including a burst fracture to his T12 vertebrae, a broken rib, and a broken knee.^[106] He used medicinal marijuana for pain control from 2005 to 2008.^[107]

Cache location is N 34°22.ABC, W 103°13.XYZ
WHERE:
A = Number of years in office
BC = Sum of the digits of year graduated college
X = Las digit of the year founded Our America Initiative
YZ = 3(Sum of the digits of the year climbed Mt Everest)

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