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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.
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 ...
Esteban Edward Torres – former Congressman from California; Norma Torres – Congresswoman from California; 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
Latino members of Congress want U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to waive an internal policy requiring their congressional offices provide USCIS with certified translations of non-English ...
This page lists Hispanic and Latino American people who have been members of the United States Congress. (The Library of Congress has a complete list of biographies of 'Hispanic Americans in Congress' through to 1995 .)
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 ...
A majority of 69% [66] of Hispanic/Latino Democrats and Democratic-leaning individuals support this view, in comparison to Hispanic/Latino Republicans and Republican-leaning individuals who less than half (39%) [66] support abortion policies. To compare these statistics with the U.S. adult population, overall 62% of adults in the United States ...
Former California Latino Democratic congressman Esteban Torres, who served 8 terms and paved the way for more Hispanic representation, is dead at 91.