List of Latino Republicans
The following is an alphabetically ordered list of notable Latino members of the United States Republican Party , past and present.
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Lee Baca (30th Sheriff of Los Angeles County California)
Alonzo Baldonado (New Mexico state representative)
Romana Acosta Bañuelos (former U.S. Treasurer, first Latina sub-cabinet official)
José Celso Barbosa (medical doctor, sociologist, political leader; founder of Republican Party of Puerto Rico)
Ruben Barrales (former Deputy Assistant to President George W. Bush , former director, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs )
Bruno Barreiro (Florida state representative)
Gustavo Barreiro (Florida state representative)
Hector Barreto Jr. (former SBA administrator)
Carlos Bonilla (lobbyist, adviser to President George W. Bush , senior fellow of The Heritage Foundation )
Henry Bonilla (former U.S. congressman from Texas)
Jaime Bonilla Valdez (joint citizen of Mexico and the United States, he served on Finance Committee of John W. McCain's 2006 Presidential Campaign)
Andreas Borgeas (California state senator)
Luigi Boria (former mayor of Doral, Florida)
David Borrero (Florida state representative)
Esteban Bovo (member of the Miami-Dade county commission, former Florida state representative)
George P. Bush (attorney, Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office; son of former Florida governor Jeb Bush)
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Ted Cruz , Junior Senator from Texas
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Luis Fortuño , 9th governor of Puerto Rico
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Alberto Gonzales , 80th Attorney General
Carlos Giminez , U.S. Congressman
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Tirso del Junco (former chair, California Republican Party and former chair, Republican National Hispanic Assembly)
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Raúl Labrador , Congressman from Idaho's 1st District
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Susana Martinez , 31st Governor of New Mexico
Steve Montenegro , Arizona state senator
Abel Maldonado (former California state senator and Lieutenant Governor of California)
Nicole Malliotakis (U.S. representative from New York; former state representative; 2017 candidate for Mayor of New York City )
Rosario Marin (former treasurer of the United States)
Alfonso Martinez-Fonts Jr. (Assistant Secretary for the Private Sector of the Department of Homeland Security )
Bob Martinez (former Florida governor)
Eugenio R. Martinez (anti-Castro activist, Watergate burglar)
Matthew Martinez (US representative from California)
Mel Martinez (former U.S. senator and former HUD secretary)
Susana Martinez (first Latina governor in the United States, former governor of New Mexico, and former district attorney for New Mexico's 3rd Judicial district)
Suzette Martinez Valladares (California state assemblywoman)
Lea Márquez Peterson (Member of the Arizona Corporation Commission , former candidate for congress)
Jason Mattera (Human Events online editor, writer, and political commentator)
Brian Mast (US representative from Florida)
Carlos Mayans (former Kansas state representative, former mayor of Wichita, Kansas)
Melissa Melendez (California state representative)
Jason Miyares (former Virginia state delegate and current Virginia attorney general)
Nestor Montoya (Congressman from New Mexico)
Rod Montoya (New Mexico state representative)
Alex X. Mooney (former Maryland state senator, former chairman of the Maryland Republican Party and current congressman from West Virginia)
Barbara Calandra Moore (former U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua)
Elsa Murano (former undersecretary for food safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Carlos Méndez Martínez (Puerto Rican politician and current mayor of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico)
Miguel A. García Méndez (former Puerto Rican politician and statehood advocate)
Steve Montenegro (Arizona state senator)
Cathy Muñoz (Alaska state representative)
Ricardo Montalbán (was a Mexican and American film and television actor)
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John Quiñones (former Florida state representative, Osceola County Commissioner)
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Marco Rubio , senior senator from Florida
Carlos Rendo (Mayor of Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, and 2017 candidate for lieutenant governor)
Sean D. Reyes (Utah attorney general)
Tomás Regalado (former mayor of Miami )
Manuel Requena (former member, Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, former mayor of Los Angeles, former trustee, Los Angeles Board of Education)
David Rivera (former U.S. congressman from Florida, former Florida state representative)
George Rivera (former Colorado state senator)
Geraldo Rivera (journalist, attorney, author, political commentator, and former television host)
Lionel Rivera (former mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Ramon Luis Rivera (former mayor of Bayamon, Puerto Rico)
Ramon Luis Rivera Jr. (Mayor of Bayamon, Puerto Rico)
Thomas Rivera Schatz (president of the Puerto Rico Senate)
Julio Robaina (Florida state representative)
Ray Rodrigues (Florida state representative)
Ana Rodriguez (Florida state senator)
Anthony Rodriguez (Florida state representative)
Jessie Rodriguez (Wisconsin state representative)
Paul Rodriguez (actor)
Rachel Rodriguez-Williams (Wyoming state representative)
Xavier Rodriguez (judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Western District of Texas)
Cesar Romero (actor, singer, dancer, active in Republican campaigns beginning in 1960)
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (former U.S. Congresswoman from Florida; first Cuban-American woman in Congress)
Larry Rubin (Mexican-American, president and chairman of The American Society of Mexico , chairman of Republicans Abroad in Mexico
Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio (former Miami Dolphins cheerleader, active in Republican political action committees)
Marco Rubio (U.S. senator from Florida, former speaker of the Florida State House of Representatives)
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Brian Sandoval , left, 29th Governor of Nevada
Maria Salazar , member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 27th district
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