Robert Garcia, U.S. Congress

Robert Julio Garcia (born December 2, 1977) is an American educator and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 42nd congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 28th mayor of Long Beach, California from 2014 to 2022. Garcia was both the city's youngest and first elected openly LGBT mayor, as well as the first Latino to hold the office. He is the second person of color to be mayor of Long Beach, after Republican Eunice Sato, a Japanese-American who served from 1980 to 1982. Garcia is the first Peruvian-American to be elected to Congress, and is one of the first two fully Latino LGBT members of Congress (along with George Santos). A former member of the Long Beach City Council, Garcia was vice mayor from 2012 to 2014. He got elected to the House of Representatives on Election Day of 2022. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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• "Robert Garcia." Wikipedia, revision of 19 June 2023. < link > Accessed 17 July 2023.