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• Carlos Alvarez
  Carlos Alvarez (mayor)
  Carlos Alvarez is a Cuban American politician, and the former mayor of Miami-Dade County. He was first elected mayor in 2004, and re-elected in 2008. His mayoralty ended in March 2011 after a recall election...
  
   (former Mayor of Miami-Dade County, FL)
• Robert C. Asseo (Human Rights Commissioner-Florence, KY)

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• Romana Acosta Bañuelos
  Romana Acosta Bañuelos
  Romana Acosta Bañuelos was the thirty-fourth Treasurer of the United States. Appointed by President Richard Nixon on September 20, 1971, she served from December 17, 1971 to February 14, 1974....
  
   (former U.S. Treasurer, first Hispanic sub-cabinet official)
• José Celso Barbosa
  José Celso Barbosa
  Dr. José Celso Barbosa was a medical Physician, sociologist, and political leader of Puerto Rico.Known within Puerto Rico's New Progressive Party as "The father of the Statehood for Puerto Rico movement", Barbosa was also the first Puerto Rican to be awarded an American medical degree.-Early...
  
   (medical doctor, sociologist, political leader, founder of Republican Party of Puerto Rico)
• Jon Barela
  Jon Barela
  Jon Barela is an entrepreneur and the 2010 Republican nominee for . He currently serves as Economic Development Secretary for the state of New Mexico.- Early life and education :...
  
   (former Congressional candidate from New Mexico)
• Gustavo Barreiro
  Gustavo Barreiro
  Gus Barreiro is a Republican Florida representative for District 107.-Councils/Committee Membership:*Criminal Justice Appropriations Committee , Chair*Community Colleges & Workforce Committee*Fiscal Council...
  
   (Florida State Representative)
• Hector Barreto
  Hector Barreto
  Hector V. Barreto was the 21st Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, confirmed on July 25, 2001. George W. Bush nominated him to the post. He resigned on April 25, 2006 following a controversial tenure as SBA chief....
  
   (former SBA Administrator)
• Claudia Bermúdez
  Claudia Bermudez
  Claudia Bermúdez is a Nicaraguan-American politician and entrepreneur. She ran for the United States Congress as a Republican in California's 9th congressional district...
  
   (businesswoman and former GOP congressional nominee)
• Henry Bonilla
  Henry Bonilla
  Henry Bonilla is a former congressman who represented Texas's 23rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He was defeated in his bid for re-election by Ciro Davis Rodriguez, a former Democratic member of Congress, in a special election runoff held on December 12, 2006...
  
   (former U.S. Congressman from Texas)
• George P. Bush
  George P. Bush
  George Prescott Gallo Bush is an attorney, U.S. Navy Reserve officer and real estate developer, who is the eldest of three children of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his wife Columba. He is the nephew of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush, and the grandson of the 41st...
  
   (attorney, son of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush)

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• Anna Escobedo Cabral
  Anna Escobedo Cabral
  Anna Escobedo Cabral , currently serves as the Unit Chief for Stakeholder Communications in the External Relations Division of the Inter-American Development Bank . Prior to joining the bank, Cabral served as the 42nd Treasurer of the United States from January 19, 2005 to January 20, 2009...
  
   (former U.S. Treasurer)
• Francisco Canseco (U.S. Congressman from Texas)
• Rachel Campos-Duffy
  Rachel Campos-Duffy
  Rachel Campos-Duffy is an American television personality who first gained fame in 1994 as a castmate on the MTV reality television series The Real World: San Francisco, before becoming a TV host, most notably as a recurring guest host on the ABC talk show The View.-Early life:Rachel Campos was...
  
   (former castmate on Real World:San Francisco)
• Alex Castellanos
  Alex Castellanos
  Alejandro "Alex" Castellanos is a U.S. Republican Party political media consultant who specializes in television advertising, and was a top media adviser to Bush Cheney '04 as well as Mitt Romney's presidential campaign....
  
   (Republican media consultant)
• Linda Chavez
  Linda Chavez
  Linda Chavez is an American author, commentator, and radio talk show host. She is also a Fox News analyst, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has a syndicated column that appears in newspapers nationwide each week, and sits on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 1000 companies:...
  
   (political pundit, author)
• Jorge Luis Córdova
  Jorge Luis Córdova
  Jorge Luis Córdova Díaz served as Puerto Rico's eleventh Resident Commissioner. His father, Félix Córdova Dávila, had served as Puerto Rico's fourth Resident Commissioner from 1917 to 1932....
  
   (former Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico in the U.S. Congress)
• Mike Curb
  Mike Curb
  Michael Curb is an American musician, record company executive, NASCAR and IRL race car owner. A Republican, he served as the 42nd Lieutenant Governor of California from 1979-1983 under Democratic Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr...
  
   (musician, record company executive, former Lieutenant Governor of California)

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• Federico Degetau
  Federico Degetau
  Federico Degetau y González, born in Ponce was a Puerto Rican politician, lawyer, writer, author, and the first Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the United States House of Representatives.-Early years:...
  
   (first Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico in the U.S. Congress)
• Lincoln Diaz-Balart
  Lincoln Diaz-Balart
  Lincoln Rafael Díaz-Balart was the U.S. Representative for from 1993 to 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate...
  
   (former U.S. Congressman from Florida)
• Mario Diaz-Balart
  Mario Diaz-Balart
  Mario Rafael Diaz-Balart Caballero is the current U.S. Representative for , serving since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in 2010 to succeed his brother, Lincoln Diaz-Balart. The district includes the city of Hialeah, along with several of Miami's southwestern suburbs...
  
   (U.S. Congressman from Florida)
• Alex Diaz de la Portilla
  Alex Diaz de la Portilla
  Alex Diaz de la Portilla is a Cuban-American politician and member of the Republican Party. He is the Senate Majority Leader in the Florida Legislature, representing the 36th District since 2000. He was President Pro Tempore from 2002 through 2004...
  
   (Florida State Senator)

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• Gloria Estefan
  Gloria Estefan
  Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...
  
   (singer and songwriter)
• Emilio Estefan
  Emilio Estefan
  Emilio Estefan, Jr. is a Cuban-American of Lebanese ancestry who is a musician and producer. Estefan's first taste of celebrity came as a member of the Miami Sound Machine, but he is also recognized as the producer of many famous singers. He is the husband of singer Gloria Estefan...
  
   (musician and songwriter)
• Miguel Estrada
  Miguel Estrada
  Miguel Angel Estrada Castañeda is an attorney who became embroiled in controversy following his 2001 nomination by President George W. Bush to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit...
  
   (attorney)
• Tibi Ellis (political strategist and advocate)

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• Ben Fernandez
  Ben Fernandez
  Ben Fernandez was an American politician, financial consultant, World War II veteran, ambassador, and the first known Hispanic to run for President of the United States....
  
   (political activist, first Hispanic presidential candidate)
• Luis A. Ferré
  Luis A. Ferré
  Don Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo was a Puerto Rican engineer, industrialist, politician, philanthropist, and a patron of the arts. He was the third Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1969 to 1973, and the founding father of the New Progressive Party which advocates for Puerto Rico...
  
   (former Governor of Puerto Rico)
• Anitere Flores
  Anitere Flores
  Anitere Flores is a Republican member of the Florida Senate, a body in which she represents the 38th District. Her district of almost 500,000 residents includes Kendall, Westchester, Fontainebleau, and portions of Southwest Miami-Dade County in South Florida. Senator Anitere Flores was sworn in...
  
   (Florida State Representative)
• Bill Flores
  Bill Flores
  William H. "Bill" Flores is the U.S. Representative for . The district, located in the middle of the state, includes Waco, College Station and Bryan. He is a member of the Republican Party and the former CEO of Phoenix Exploration Company, an oil and natural gas exploration company.-Early life and...
  
   (U.S. Congressman from Texas)
• Luis Fortuño
  Luis Fortuño
  Luis Guillermo Fortuño Burset is the governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States of America. Fortuño is also the president of the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico , a member of the Republican National Committee, and will be president of the Council of State...
  
   (Governor of Puerto Rico)
• Jeff Frederick
  Jeff Frederick
  Jeffrey M. Frederick is a former member of the General Assembly of Virginia. A Republican, he served three terms in the Virginia House of Delegates and also served as chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia and as a member of the Republican National Committee from May 2008 to April...
  
   (first Hispanic elected to Virginia government, former Chairman of Republican Party of Virginia)

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• Andy García
  Andy García
  Andrés Arturo García Menéndez , professionally known as Andy García, is a Cuban American actor. He became known in the late 1980s and 1990s, having appeared in several successful Hollywood films, including The Godfather: Part III, The Untouchables, Internal Affairs and When a Man Loves a Woman...
  
   (actor)
• Bonnie Garcia
  Bonnie Garcia
  Bonnie Garcia was the representative of California's 80th Assembly District, serving eastern Riverside County and all of Imperial County....
  
   (former California State Assemblywoman)
• Michael J. Garcia
  Michael J. Garcia
  Michael J. Garcia is the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.Mr. Garcia is the prosecutor in charge of the federal investigation against the disgraced former governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer....
  
   (former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York)
• Rene Garcia
  Rene Garcia
  Rene Garcia is a Florida State Senator representing District 40, a former member of the Florida House of Representatives and a former member of the City of Hialeah City Council...
  
   (former Florida State Representative)
• Rudy Garcia (Florida State Senator)
• John Garza
  John Garza
  John Vincent Garza, was born on March 13, 1955 in Herlong, California. Garza currently serves as a Republican state representative representing District 117 in Bexar County, Texas. Rep. Garza has worked in affordable housing development and sales for over 25 years...
  
   (Texas House of Representatives, District 117-San Antonio)
• Tony Garza
  Tony Garza
  Antonio Oscar "Tony" Garza, Jr. , an American lawyer and former county judge in Texas, was the United States Ambassador to Mexico from 2002 to 2009.-Early life and education:...
  
   (former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico)
• Alberto Gonzales
  Alberto Gonzales
  Alberto R. Gonzales was the 80th Attorney General of the United States. Gonzales was appointed to the post in February 2005 by President George W. Bush. Gonzales was the first Hispanic Attorney General in U.S. history and the highest-ranking Hispanic government official ever...
  
   (80th United States Attorney General)
• Jenniffer González
  Jennifer González
  Jenniffer A. González Colón is a Puerto Rican politician who serves as the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico, a commonwealth with the United States. She is affiliated with the pro-statehood New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico and the United States Republican Party...
  
   (Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives)
• Carlos Gutierrez
  Carlos Gutierrez
  Carlos Miguel Gutierrez is an American former CEO and former U.S. Cabinet Member who is currently a Vice Chairman of Citigroup's Institutional Clients Group. He has previously served as the 35th U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 2005 to 2009...
  
   (former Secretary of Commerce)
• Lino Gutierrez
  Lino Gutierrez
  Lino Gutierrez is an American diplomat. He served as Ambassador to Argentina from September 2003 through July 2006. He was succeeded by Earl Anthony Wayne...
  
   (former U.S. Ambassador to Argentina)

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• Tirso del Junco
  Tirso del Junco
  Dr. Tirso del Junco-Mesa is a general surgeon, Diplomat of the American Board of Surgery, Fellow of American College of Surgeons....
  
   (former chair, California Republican Party and former chair, Republican National Hispanic Assembly)

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• Raúl Labrador
  Raúl Labrador
  Raúl Rafael Labrador is the U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously represented District 14B in the Idaho House of Representatives.-Early life, education, and law career:...
  
   (U.S. Congressman from Idaho)
• Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo
  Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo
  Octavio Ambrosio Larrazolo served as the fourth Governor of New Mexico and a United States Senator. He was the first United States Senator of Mexican-American heritage....
  
   (first Hispanic U.S. Senator)
• Marcelo Llorente
  Marcelo Llorente
  Marcelo Llorente was a Republican Representative in the House of Representatives of the U.S. state of Florida. He was first elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2004, 2006, and 2008...
  
   (Florida State Representative)
• Carlos Lopez-Cantera
  Carlos Lopez-Cantera
  Carlos Lopez-Cantera is a Miami, Florida Republican politician who serves as the representative for District 113 of the House of Representatives of the State of Florida. He was first elected to the Florida House in 2004, and was successively reelected in 2006 and 2008. He is the Majority Whip for...
  
   (Florida State Representative)
• Pete Lopez (New York State Assemblyman)
• Manuel Lujan, Jr. (former U.S. Congressman and Secretary of the Interior)

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• Abel Maldonado
  Abel Maldonado
  Abel Maldonado is an American politician who was the 48th Lieutenant Governor of California. On November 23, 2009, then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Maldonado as his nominee for Lieutenant Governor to fill the vacancy created by John Garamendi's election to the United States House of...
  
   (former California state senator and Lieutenant Governor of California)
• Nicole Malliotakis
  Nicole Malliotakis
  Nicole Malliotakis is a Republican politician from New York City who represents parts of Brooklyn and Staten Island in the New York State Assembly. She is the first Hispanic-American to win elective office to any district that encompasses Staten Island. She is one of the first Greek-American women...
  
   (New York State Assemblywoman)
• Rosario Marin
  Rosario Marin
  Rosario Marin , was the 41st Treasurer of the United States from August 16, 2001 to June 30, 2003 serving under President George W. Bush. She is the first person to assume the post since William Clark who was not born a United States citizen . She is the only U...
  
   (former Treasurer of the United States)
• Bob Martinez
  Bob Martinez
  Robert Martinez was the 40th Governor of Florida from 1987 to 1991. Prior to that, he was the mayor of Tampa from 1979 to 1986.- Education and early career :...
  
   (former Florida Governor)
• Mel Martinez
  Mel Martinez
  Melquíades Rafael Martínez Ruiz, usually known as Mel Martinez , is a former United States Senator from Florida and served as Chairman of the Republican Party from November 2006 until October 19, 2007, the first Latino to serve as chairman of a major party...
  
   (former U.S. Senator and former HUD Secretary)
• Susana Martinez
  Susana Martinez
  Susana Martinez is the 31st and current governor of New Mexico.A Republican, Martinez is the first female governor of New Mexico, as well as the first female Hispanic governor in the United States. She was formerly the district attorney for the 3rd Judicial District of the U.S. state of New Mexico...
  
   (Governor of New Mexico and former District Attorney for New Mexico's 3rd Judicial district)
• Jason Mattera
  Jason Mattera
  Jason Joseph Mattera is an American writer, activist, radio host, and editor of Human Events magazine. He entered conservative activism while attending Roger Williams University and has worked for Young America's Foundation....
  
   (Human Events
  Human Events
  Human Events is a weekly American conservative magazine. It takes its name from the first sentence of the United States Declaration of Independence...
  
   online editor, writer, and political commentator)
• Alex X. Mooney
  Alex X. Mooney
  Alex X. Mooney is a former Maryland State Senator representing District 3. On December 11, 2010, Mooney was elected as Chair of the Maryland Republican Party.-Background:...
  
   (Maryland state senator and Chairman of the Maryland Republican Party)
• Barbara Calandra Moore (former U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua)
• Roy Morales
  Roy Morales
  Roy Morales is a Harris County, Texas school board trustee and a retired air force lieutenant colonel. He was a Republican candidate in the 2009 Houston Mayoral Election, which he lost to Annise Parker.-Early life and career:...
  
   (former Houston Mayoral candidate, former U.S. Congressional candidate)
• Tito Muñoz AKA Tito the Builder
  Tito the Builder
  Tito Muñoz, also known as Tito the Builder, is a conservative activist who has received substantial media attention for various political campaign activities. During the United States presidential election, 2008, Muñoz became notable for publicly defending Joe Wurzelbacher, and also for campaigning...
  
  , campaign activist of John McCain's presidential campaign in 2008
  John McCain presidential campaign, 2008
  John McCain, the senior United States Senator from Arizona, launched his second candidacy for the presidency of the United States in an unsuccessful bid to win the 2008 presidential election. His candidacy, in the works for a number of years, was informally announced on February 28, 2007 during a...
  
  
• Elsa Murano
  Elsa Murano
  Elsa Alina Murano was the 23rd President of Texas A&M University. On June 14, 2009, Murano resigned as president of the university, effective June 15, 2009....
  
   (former undersecretary for food safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture)

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• Joe Negron
  Joe Negron
  Joe Negron is the senator for Florida's state senate district 28. He is also a former member of the Florida House of Representatives who served from 2000 to 2006. He represented District 82, serving Palm Beach, Martin, and St. Lucie Counties and was chairman of the Appropriations Committee...
  
   (former Florida State Representative)
• Roger Noriega
  Roger Noriega
  Roger Francisco Noriega is currently a visiting fellow at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute. He has previously served as a U.S...
  
   (former Assistant Secretary of State and U.S. Representative to the OAS)
• Antonia Coello Novello (former U.S. Surgeon General)

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• Bob Pacheco
  Bob Pacheco
  Bob Pacheco represented California's 60th Assembly District from 1998 until 2004. He currently serves on the US Naval Academy Board of Visitors.-Election to the Assembly:...
  
   (former California State Assemblyman)
• Rod Pacheco
  Rod Pacheco
  Rodric Anthony Pacheco , usually known as Rod Pacheco, is an American politician. He served in the Riverside County District Attorney's Office as a Deputy District Attorney, Chief Deputy District Attorney, Assistant District Attorney and then as District Attorney from 2007-2010 in Riverside County,...
  
   (former California State Assemblyman)
• Romualdo Pacheco
  Romualdo Pacheco
  José Antonio Romualdo Pacheco Jr. was an American politician and diplomat. Involved in California state and federal politics, Pacheco was elected and appointed to various posts and offices throughout his more than thirty-year career, including the California State Senate, the 12th Governor of...
  
   (first Hispanic U.S. Congressman and California Governor)

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• John Quinones
  John Quiñones (politician)
  John P. Quiñones IV was the first Republican of Puerto Rican ancestry elected to the Florida House of Representatives. Quiñones, who was elected in 2002, represented the 49th District of the state, which stretches between Osceola and Orange counties...
  
   (former Florida State Representative, Osceola County Commissioner)

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• David Rivera
  David Rivera
  David Mauricio Rivera is the U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Republican Party. He is a Miami-based public affairs consultant and formerly represented District 112 in the Florida House of Representatives....
  
   (U.S. Congressman from Florida and former Florida state Representative)
• Lionel Rivera
  Lionel Rivera
  Lionel Rivera is the Republican mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Elected in April 2003 and re-elected in 2007 on a mail ballot only election, he is the first Hispanic Vice Mayor and Mayor in the history of Colorado Springs....
  
   (Mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado)
• Luis Rivera
  Luis Rivera
  Luis Antonio Rivera Pedraza is a former infielder and coach in Major League Baseball, playing mainly as a shortstop for five teams from 1986 through 1998. Rivera batted and threw right-handed...
  
    Businessman, Government, Chairman Political Committees, Radio Shows, TV Show, Horse Racing
• Thomas Rivera Schatz
  Thomas Rivera Schatz
  Thomas "Tommy" Rivera Schätz is a Puerto Rican politician currently serving as the fourteenth President of the Senate of Puerto Rico. He is affiliated with the pro-statehood New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico and the United States Republican Party...
  
   (President of the Puerto Rico Senate)
• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1989. She is a member of the Republican Party....
  
   (U.S. Congresswoman from Florida, first Latina in Congress)
• Marco Rubio
  Marco Rubio
  Marco Antonio Rubio is the junior United States Senator from Florida . A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives ....
  
   (U.S. Senator from Florida and former Speaker of the Florida State House of Representatives)

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• Felix Sabates
  Felix Sabates
  Felix Sabates is an entrepreneur and philanthropist living in the United States. He is currently a minority shareholder in Chip Ganassi Racing, which fields teams in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series , GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series and the IZOD IndyCar Series...
  
   (businessman and philanthropist)
• John Sanchez
  John Sanchez
  John A. Sanchez is an American politician and, as of January 1, 2011, the 31st Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico by winning the primary election on June 1, 2010, and the general election on November 2, 2010.-Biography:...
  
   (Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico and former state representative and gubernatorial nominee in New Mexico)
• Leslie Sanchez
  Leslie Sanchez
  Leslie Sanchez is a prominent American author, political pundit affiliated with the Republican Party, and founder/CEO of Impacto Group LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based market research and consulting firm.-Early life:...
  
   (political pundit)
• Brian Sandoval
  Brian Sandoval
  Brian Edward Sandoval is an American politician. He is the 29th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada since January 3, 2011. Sandoval is a former judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada...
  
    (Governor of Nevada and former U.S. Attorney and Nevada Attorney General)
• Jorge Santini
  Jorge Santini
  Jorge Santini Padilla in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an Puerto Rican Politician and current Mayor of San Juan City.-Biography:...
  
   (Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico)
• Jon Secada
  Jon Secada
  Jon Secada is a Cuban-American singer and songwriter. Secada was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Hialeah, Florida. He has won two Grammy Awards and sold 20 million albums since his English-language debut album in 1992. His music fuses funk, soul, pop and Latin percussion...
  
   (singer and songwriter)

See also

• Congressional Hispanic Conference
  Congressional Hispanic Conference
  The Congressional Hispanic Conference is a Republican Party-controlled caucus in the United States Congress. The CHC was formed in 2003, with the stated goal of promoting policy outcomes of importance to Americans of Hispanic or Latino and Portuguese descent. These priorities included support of...
  
  
• List of Latin Americans
• Republican National Hispanic Assembly
  Republican National Hispanic Assembly
  The Republican National Hispanic Assembly is an American political organization founded in 1967 which seeks to promote Hispanic issues and interests within the Republican Party, and the Party's interests and candidates within the Hispanic population...
  
  
• List of Black Republicans

External links

• Linda Chavez- conservative, political news blog
• Fluent Strategy Group, LLC- Hispanic Republican marketing and consulting firm
• The Latino Republican Forum- online community
• Los Republicanos by Leslie Sanchez- book website
• Republican National Hispanic Assembly
• Impacto Group, LLC- Hispanic Republican marketing and consulting firm