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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 National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) is the 501(c)(4) non-partisan leadership organization of the nation's more than 7,000 Latino elected and appointed Latino public officials in the United States. NALEO is governed by a 35-member Board of Directors composed of the nation’s Latino elected and appointed ...
Centro de Acción Social Autónomo is an organization established in Los Angeles in 1968 by immigrant and Chicano/a workers. CASA focuses on helping out immigrants and Chicano communities for equal rights. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) is a nonprofit and nonpartisan leadership development organization established in 1978. [1]
Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., will introduce legislation to rename the Los Angeles U.S. Courthouse after the Latino family whose lawsuit Mendez v. Westminster paved the way for school desegregation.
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 League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the largest and oldest Hispanic and Latin-American civil rights organization in the United States. [2] It was established on February 17, 1929, in Corpus Christi, Texas, largely by Hispanics returning from World War I who sought to end ethnic discrimination against Latinos in the United States.
Raúl Labrador, Congressman from Idaho's 1st District. Raúl Labrador (former U.S. congressman from Idaho) Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo (first Latino U.S. senator) Lil Pump (Rapper) endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2020; Eric Linder (former California state assemblyman) Carlos López-Cantera (former lieutenant governor of Florida)
They make up 18% of all California Latino legislators, in a state where a survey released this year by the National Assn. of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials — headed by a Downey Latina ...