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This is a list of Hispanic and Latino Americans who have served in the United States Congress. Persons included are identified as having a lineage from Spain or Latin America, a definition that includes Brazil, but not Portugal. Entries shaded in gray refer to current members of the U.S. Congress.
Hispanic and Latino American politicians continued to make gains in important positions in Congress, and for the first time in this period had an equal number of full voting members in Congress and non-voting delegates. [1] The Congressional Hispanic Caucus was founded in 1976. Pictured are members of the Caucus gathered together in 1984.
This page lists Hispanic and Latino American people who have been members of the United States Congress. (The Library of Congress has a complete list of biographies of 'Hispanic Americans in Congress' through to 1995
Patricia Torres Ray – first Hispanic woman to serve in the MN Senate as MN Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party SD63 Xochitl Torres Small – U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture and former Congresswoman from New Mexico
Esteban Torres, a son of East Los Angeles who emerged from the Chicano civil rights movement to become an eight-term congressman who pushed for social and economic change to help empower Latinos ...
Hispanic and Latino American city council members (1 C, 87 P) American politicians of Colombian descent (30 P) Hispanic and Latino American members of the United States Congress (1 C, 151 P)
Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., elected as chair of the House Democratic Caucus, is taking on the highest level House leadership job ever held by a Latino.
Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Conference, supports the Trump administration's immigration agenda and the deportation of "convicted criminal aliens," but not your ...