page_title: List of Mexican Americans
section_title: Political figures
hierarchical_section_title: List of Mexican Americans / Political figures
caption_attribution_description: English: Official portrait of Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada)
context_page_description: Mexican Americans are residents of the United States who have Mexican ancestry. The list includes Mexican immigrants and those who lived in the southwestern United States when the territory was incorporated in 1848.
context_section_description: Oscar Zeta Acosta – politician, attorney, minor novelist and activist
  Romana Acosta Bañuelos – former Treasurer of the United States
  Pete Aguilar – U.S. representative (CA-31)
  Mike Aguirre – former city attorney of San Diego, California
  Juan Bautista Alvarado – twice governor of Alta California from 1836 to 1837 and 1838 to 1842
  Toney Anaya – US Democratic Politician and Former Governor of New Mexico
  Jerry Apodaca – former Governor of New Mexico
  Jesse Arreguin – Mayor of Berkeley, California
  Ruben Ayala  – Mayor of Chino, California
  Hector Balderas – Attorney General of New Mexico
  Nanette Barragán – U.S. representative (CA-44)
  Rosemary Barkett – Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court
  Xavier Becerra – Attorney General of California, U.S. representative (CA-31)
  Jaime Herrera Beutler – U.S Representative (WA 3)
  Polly Baca – served as Chair of the Democratic Caucus of the Colorado House of Representatives
  Gina M. Benavides – justice at the Texas Thirteenth Court of Appeals
  George P. Bush – son of Jeb Bush
  Cruz Bustamante – former California lieutenant governor
  Ezequiel Cabeza de Baca – Former Governor of New Mexico
  Anna Escobedo Cabral – 42nd Treasurer of the United States
  Kiki Camarena – undercover agent for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration
  Salud Carbajal – U.S. representative (CA-24)
  Tony Cárdenas – U.S. representative (CA-29)
  Carlos Antonio Carrillo – (1783–1852), Gobernador of Alta California, (1837–1838). His father, José Raimundo Carrillo, came from Loreto, México.
  José Antonio Carrillo – (1796–1862), Californio ranchero, official and political. He was brother of Carlos Antonio Carrillo.
  Juan José Carrillo – first mayor of Santa Monica, California
  Ruben Castillo – Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  José Castro (California, 1808 – February 1860) was acting governor of Alta California in 1835–1836, and Commandante General of the Mexican army in Alta California at the time of the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt and the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848
  Raul Hector Castro – Governor of Arizona
  Lauro Cavazos – secretary of education
  Gabe Cazares – former mayor of Clearwater, Florida
  Dennis Chavez – U.S. senator from New Mexico
  Henry Cisneros – former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and mayor of San Antonio, Texas
  Lou Correa – U.S. House of Representatives (CA 46)
  Henry Cuellar – U.S. House of Representatives Texas's 28th congressional district
  Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar – justice of the Supreme Court of California
  Gonzalo P. Curiel – district judge
  James DeAnda – attorney and United States federal judge, noted for his activities in defense of Hispanic civil rights, particularly as a plaintiff's attorney in Hernandez v. Texas.
  Elena J. Duarte – Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal
  Ben Fernandez (1925 – 2000) - American politician, financial consultant and special ambassador. He was a member of the Republican Party. He ran for President of the United States in 1980, 1984 and 1988, making him America's first major-party presidential contender of Hispanic origin
  Mario Gallegos, Jr. – Texas state senator
  Pete Gallego – former U.S. representative (TX 23)
  Ruben Gallego – U.S. representative (AZ 7)
  Tony Gallegos – Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  Jesus "Chuy" Garcia – Cook County Commissioner, former Member of Illinois State Senate, Mayor Candidate for the city of Chicago
  Ruben Garcia Jr. – former executive assistant director of FBI
  Margarito C. Garza – district judge, comic book creator
  Reynaldo Guerra Garza – first Hispanic judge appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals
  José Antonio de la Garza (1776-1851?) – Mayor of San Antonio, Texas (in 1813 and 1832), the first landowner in San Antonio and the first man to create a coin in this state.
  Tony Garza – U.S. ambassador to Mexico
  Eric Garcetti – Mayor of Los Angeles
  Gil Garcetti – former Los Angeles district attorney
  Alberto Gonzales – United States Attorney General
  Henry Gonzalez (1916–2000) U.S. representative (Texas)
  Irma Elsa Gonzalez – federal judge
  Matt Gonzalez – pol
caption: Catherine Cortez Masto, first Latina U.S. senator
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