List of Latino Republicans

The following is an alphabetically ordered list of notable Latino members of the United States Republican Party, past and present.

B

  • Jose Aliseda (current District Attorney Bee, McMullen and Live Oak Counties; former State Representative, Texas and former Bee County Judge)
  • Romana Acosta Bañuelos (former U.S. Treasurer, first Hispanic sub-cabinet official)
  • José Celso Barbosa (medical doctor, sociologist, political leader, founder of Republican Party of Puerto Rico)
  • Jon Barela (former Congressional candidate from New Mexico)
  • Gustavo Barreiro (Florida State Representative)
  • Hector Barreto (former SBA Administrator)
  • Claudia Bermúdez (businesswoman and former GOP congressional nominee)
  • Henry Bonilla (former U.S. Congressman from Texas)
  • George P. Bush (attorney, Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, son of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush)

C

Ted Cruz, Junior Senator from Texas

D

E

F

Luis Fortuño, 9th Governor of Puerto Rico

G

Alberto Gonzales, 80th Attorney General
  • Marilinda Garcia (current New Hampshire state legislator and candidate for the House of Representatives in 2014)
  • Andy García (actor)
  • Bonnie Garcia (former California State Assemblywoman and current candidate for California State Senate in 2014)
  • Michael J. Garcia (Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York)
  • Rene Garcia (former Florida State Representative)
  • Rudy Garcia (Florida State Senator)
  • John Garza (Texas House of Representatives, District 117-San Antonio)
  • Tony Garza (former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico)
  • Gabriel Gomez (Republican nominee for Senate in Massachusetts in the 2013 special election)
  • Alberto Gonzales (80th United States Attorney General)
  • Jenniffer González (Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives)
  • Dr. Lydia Gonzalez-D'Ross (Oklahoma GOP Republican State committeewoman,[1] nominee to House of Representatives (D71); Senate Appointee to OCSW Commissioner[2])
  • Carlos Gutierrez (former Secretary of Commerce)
  • Lino Gutierrez (former U.S. Ambassador to Argentina)

H

J

  • Tirso del Junco (former chair, California Republican Party and former chair, Republican National Hispanic Assembly)

L

Raúl Labrador, Congressman from Idaho's 1st District

M

Susana Martinez, 31st and current Governor of New Mexico

N

  • Joe Negron (former Florida State Representative)
  • Roger Noriega (former Assistant Secretary of State and U.S. Representative to the OAS)
  • Antonia Coello Novello (former U.S. Surgeon General)
  • Clarice Navarro (Colorado State House District 47 Representative - Republican)
  • Jerry Natividad (businessman, former Chairman of RNHA Colorado)

O

  • Fernando Oaxaca (Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ford; one of five founders and the second president of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly)
  • Katherine D. Ortega (former U.S. Treasurer)
  • Adelina Otero-Warren (early 20th century New Mexico suffragist, public official and congressional candidate)
  • Héctor O'Neill (Mayor of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico)

P

Q

  • John Quinones (former Florida State Representative, Osceola County Commissioner)
  • Emilio Quintero (EGA)

R

Marco Rubio, Junior Senator from Florida
  • Sean D. Reyes (current Utah Attorney General)
  • David Rivera (former U.S. Congressman from Florida and former Florida state Representative)
  • Lionel Rivera (Mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado)
  • Ramon Luis Rivera (former Mayor of Bayamon, Puerto Rico)
  • Ramon Luis Rivera Jr. (current Mayor of Bayamon, Puerto Rico)
  • Thomas Rivera Schatz (former President of the Puerto Rico Senate)
  • Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (U.S. Congresswoman from Florida, Chair House Subcommittee on The Middle East and North Africa, former Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, first Latina in Congress)
  • Marco Rubio (U.S. Senator from Florida and former Speaker of the Florida State House of Representatives)
  • George Rivera (former Colorado State Senator, Senate District 3 - Republican)
  • Jose Cheo Rivera (Businessman, former National Chairman RNHA)

S

Brian Sandoval, left, 29th and current Governor of Nevada

V

  • Jaci Velasquez (singer)
  • Raul Danny Vargas (Businessman, Media Commentator and Political Activist)
  • Massey Villarreal, Businessman, former National Chairman, Republican National Hispanic Assembly (RNHA)

Z

  • Javier Zabala (Georgia Business Man/Future Congressman)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Tulsa GOP Selects New Leadership". Sooner Politics.org. Retrieved 2017-03-27.
  2. ↑ "Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women - Commissioners". apps.ok.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-27.
  3. ↑ "Orlando Sanchez". Orlando Sanchez. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
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