Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Nicole Malliotakis (/ ˌ m æ l i ə ˈ t ɑː k ɪ s / MAL-ee-ə-TAH-kiss; born November 11, 1980) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 11th congressional district since 2021. Her constituency covers Staten Island and southern Brooklyn.
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.
A Democrat from New York, Velázquez chaired the Congressional Hispanic Caucus until January 3, 2011. Her district, in New York City, was numbered the 12th district from 1993 to 2013 and has been numbered the 7th district since 2013. Velázquez is the first Puerto Rican woman to serve in the United States Congress. [1]
Resigned to become New York City Comptroller. Frank T. Fitzgerald: Democratic 6th: March 4, 1889 – November 4, 1889 Resigned when elected register of New York County. John J. Fitzgerald: Democratic 2nd: March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1903 Brooklyn Resigned. 7th: March 4, 1903 – December 31, 1917 John Fitzgibbons: Democratic At-large: March 4 ...
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.
Ritchie Torres – Congressman from New York; Selena Torres – Nevada state assemblywoman; 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; Raúl Torrez – New Mexico ...
The district has the highest percentages of Ecuadorian Americans, at 9.0%, and Bangladeshi Americans, at 2.3%, out of New York's congressional districts. [3] Roughly half of the population of the district is of Hispanic or Latino heritage, making it one of the more Latino districts in New York
New York's 12th: January 3, 1969: Retired Bella Abzug (1920–1998) Democratic: New York's 19th & 20th: January 3, 1971: January 3, 1977: Retired to run unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for the 1976 United States Senate election in New York: Ella Grasso (1919–1981) Democratic: Connecticut's 6th: January 3, 1975