There are more than five thousand Hispanic elected officials in the United States, including about twenty members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
President Bill Clinton’s first-term cabinet included two Hispanics: Henry Cisneros, secretary of housing and urban development, and Federico Pena, secretary of transportation.
Of the two, only Pena stayed on in Clinton’s second term, as secretary of energy.
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