Posted on 03/17/2022 7:34:03 AM PDT by Borges
Lauro Cavazos, the United States secretary of education from 1988 to 1990 under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and the nation’s first Latino to serve in a cabinet post, died on Tuesday. He was 95.
Texas Tech University, where he served as president, confirmed his death.
A Texas ranch foreman’s son and a sixth-generation Mexican American, Dr. Cavazos, after an academic career, was Reagan’s education secretary for only four months before being reappointed by Bush, the professed “education president,” to his cabinet in early 1989.
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6 generations in the USA, and NY Times still must call him "Mexican-American"
Wait, the first Hispanic in the cabinet wasn’t a Democrat? Next you’re going to tell me Republicans had the first female Supreme Court Justice and Black Secretary of State.
I remember him when he was El Presidente of Texas Tech. RIP.
He was a Democrat, actually.
Wasn’t George Romney born in Mexico?
Appointed by a repub.
His predecessor, William Bennett, was also a Democrat when Reagan appointed him (but he switched to the GOP during his time as Ed Sec).
Yes.
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