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Latinas in the US House

             Name

State

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Rep)

Florida

Lucille Roybal-Allard (Dem)

California

Nydia Velazquez (Dem)

New York

Loretta Sanchez (Dem)

California

Grace Napolitano (Dem)

California

Hilda Solis (Dem)

California

Linda Sanchez (Dem)

California

Served

1989 - present

1993 - present

1993 - present

1997 - present

1999 - present

2001 - 2009

2003 - present

All of the Latinas ever elected to the US House, except Hilda Solis, are currently serving.  No Latina has been elected to the US Senate. Hilda Solis resigned the US House to become Secretary of Labor.

Click on the links for additional information on African-American women, women of Asian / Pacific Islander descent, and women in the US House in general.

Sources: Center for American Women in Politics, Rutgers University, Women in Congress, www.house.gov, Women in the US Congress report

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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