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There are five Latino Senators in the United States Senate, three Latino Democrats and two Latino Republicans. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), first Latina elected to serve as a U.S. Senator from Nevada. Ted Cruz (R-TX), first Latino American to serve as a U.S. senator from Texas, former 2016 Presidential candidate.
The projected Latin voter participation rate is 52.7% compared to 66.1% for Caucasians and 65.2% for blacks in 2008. [19] In 2012, 70% of Hispanic and Latin voters identified with, or leaned toward, the Democratic Party, while 20% of Hispanic voters identified with, or leaned toward, the Republican Party. [20]
A total of 14 Hispanic and Latino Americans have served in the United States Senate, with 6 serving from the Republican party and 8 from the Democratic Party. A total of 5 Hispanic or Latino Americans served in the United States Senate before the 21st century, three serving as senators for the state of New Mexico and 2 from the state of ...
America’s whole racial discourse over 250 years of history, its national story, has to date been defined by Black and white. Whiteness in America was created in contrast to the Indigenous, the ...
Several Republican and Democratic Latinos made history in the 2022 midterm elections as votes are still being tallied Wednesday.
Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla made history again Tuesday night when he became the first Latino to be elected to represent California in the U.S. Senate.
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.