Case in point: Octaviano Larrazolo, the first Hispanic to serve in the US Senate. Larrazolo was born in Mexico in 1859 and came to the United States as a child for educational opportunities.

Octaviano Larrazolo, the first Hispanic US senator, was an immigrant. politics As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, CNN Politics looks at some of US political history's most influential Hispanics.

Eleven senators are a racial or ethnic minority, up from nine in the 116th Congress. Six senators are Hispanic, two are Asian and three are Black. Freshman Raphael Warnock is the first Black senator ...

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s indictment is making waves among Hispanic Democrats, who worry the scandal will obscure the embattled senator’s legacy, dealing a blow to Latino ...

During Hispanic Heritage Month and beyond, ... Ten years later, he was elected to the United States Senate, making him the first Hispanic American to serve as a U.S. Senator.

While Latinos comprise 17 percent of the U.S. population, only six percent of the members of Congress are Hispanic. Hispanic leaders think those numbers could rise this fall, however. {mosads}In ...

LGBTQ Hispanic senator says DeSantis "cares more about scoring political points in the moment than authentic solidarity with his own constituents." Skip to content. All Sections.

There are about 517,000 Hispanic Ohioans, accounting for about 4.5% of the Buckeye State’s population. That’s more than double the number that lived there at the turn of the century.

The Democratic-led U.S. Senate on Monday voted in favor of U.S. District Judge Nancy Maldonado becoming the first Hispanic judge on the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals over the ...

Democrats. Torres, a longtime community activist, was outspoken in saying having an Hispanic senator, especially a Puerto Rican like herself and her husband, was imperative.