List of Latino Republicans explained
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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- Tirso del Junco (former chair, California Republican Party and former chair, Republican National Hispanic Assembly)
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- 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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- 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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