Mount Dora, New Mexico was named after a nearby geographic feature, Mount Dora, which US Senator Stephen W. Dorsey of Arkansas named to honor his sister-in-law.Senator Dorsey was a one-term senator from the Republican Party and served from 1873 to 1879 during reconstruction. Despite being acquitted of defrauding the government $412k with his partners, the Senator's career was over. Dorsey raised cattle and mined in New Mexico and Colorado before moving west to Los Angeles for the rest of his days. US Senator Stephen W. Dorsey's body rests in Denver at the Fairmont Cemetery, and no other Republican would be elected to the Senate from Arkansas until 1999.If you have a sister-in-law and an opportunity to name something in her honor, would you?
