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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.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) was organized in 1976 by five Hispanic Congressmen: Herman Badillo (NY), Baltasar Corrada del Río (PR), Kika de la Garza (TX), Henry B. Gonzalez (TX) and Edward Roybal (CA), to serve as a legislative organization through which legislative action, as well as executive and judicial actions, could be monitored to ensure the needs of Hispanics were being met.
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.
The Congressional Hispanic Conference was founded in 2003 by Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), who was a co-chair with Gonzales in the last Congress, and other Hispanic GOP members.
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 ...
The following is an alphabetically ordered list of notable Latino members of the United States Democratic Party, ... the first Hispanic Congressman from Texas.
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 ...
The Congressional Hispanic Conference (CHC) is a Republican sponsored caucus in the United States Congress. Currently with 20 members, the CHC was formed in 2003, with the stated goal of promoting policy outcomes of importance to Americans of Hispanic or Lusitanic descent.