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Julian Castro, 16th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Lauro Cavazos, the first Hispanic Cabinet member [2] Dennis Chavez, the first American-born Hispanic Senator [3] Anna Caballero – California state senator; Charles Calderon – former Majority Leader of the California State Assembly
There are 5 Latino Senators in the United States Senate, 3 Latino Democrats and 2 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.
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.
Once seen as a bedrock constituency of the Democratic Party coalition, Latino voters shifted to the right in the 2024 presidential election — helping former President Donald Trump defeat Vice ...
Notably, two of Arizona’s most prominent Democrats are Latinos who have a military record. Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, who defeated an election-denying candidate in 2022, is a ...
Prominent Latinos in Congress looked on quietly, at first, privately raising concerns with the Biden administration over the direction of border security talks. Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of ...
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]
The Democratic Party has long assumed that Latinos would simply remain a reliable base of support and, some argue, that the party took the Latino community for granted.