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Joined the El Paso Times in 1976. A native of Valentine, Texas, which is just outside Marfa, Rentería began his newspaper career in 1972 at the Clovis, New Mexico, News Journal.
Lucy G. Acosta (1926-2008), activist and political appointee. [1] Suzie Azar (born 1946), aviator, politician and first woman to serve as mayor of El Paso. [2] Kathleen Cardone (born 1953), United States District Judge. [3] Alicia R. Chacón (born 1938), first woman elected to office in the city of El Paso.
Juan de Oñate, born in present-day Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico, was the first explorer to arrive at the Rio Grande near El Paso (near the current small town of San Elizario, which is about 30 miles (48 km) downstream of El Paso), where he ordered his expedition party to rest and where the official act of possession, La Toma, was executed and celebrated, on April 30, 1598.
Anita Lee Blair was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and raised in El Paso, Texas. She graduated from Austin High School in that city, in 1933. [2] She became blind after a car accident at age 19, in Alamogordo, New Mexico. She earned a B. A. at Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy in 1944, and later completed a master's degree from Texas ...
Allan B. Polunsky Unit, West Livingston, Texas. David Leonard Wood (born June 20, 1957), known as The Desert Killer, is an American serial killer and rapist who killed at least six girls and women in El Paso, Texas between May and August 1987, burying their bodies in the desert. While he has denied culpability for the crimes, he was nonetheless ...
Education. University of Texas, El Paso ( BS) Occupation. Realtor. Pat Francis O'Rourke (August 27, 1942 – July 3, 2001) was an American businessman and politician based in El Paso, Texas. He is the father of politician Beto O'Rourke .
Mary Frances Reynolds was born on April 1, 1932, in El Paso, Texas, to Maxene N. "Minnie" Harman and Raymond Francis "Ray" Reynolds, a carpenter who worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad. [citation needed] She was of Scottish-Irish and English ancestry [10] and was raised in a strict Nazarene church of her domineering mother. [11]
Lee Trevino. Lee Buck Trevino (born December 1, 1939) is an American retired professional golfer who is regarded as one of the greatest players in golf history. [1][2][3][4] He was inducted to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1981. Trevino won six major championships and 29 PGA Tour events over the course of his career.