Henry Gonzalez spent almost 40 years serving his state and his country. He was the first Hispanic to serve in the Texas State Senate and the first Mexican-American elected from Texas to serve in Congress. He was born on May 3, 1916 in San Antonio, Texas, where his father Leonides Gonzalez Cigarroa, a politician and newspaper editor had fled the havoc of the Mexican Revolution of 1911. Henry B. Gonzalez attended Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, and graduated in 1935. Thereafter he attended San Antonio Junior College, from which he received an associate’s degree in 1937. For the next two years he attended the University of Texas at Austin where he studied engineering and law. Later, Gonzalez returned to San Antonio, where he enrolled in the St. Mary’s University School of Law. In the 1930s, Gonzalez developed his combative style while boxing in illegal matches to pay his college tuition, eventually becoming a Golden Gloves champ--a skill he almost used in a Capitol Hill cloakroom on a G.O.P. co
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In 1956 he won a seat in the Texas senate. In 1998 Gonzalez declined to run for re-election due to his poor health. Bush charging that the president had gone to war in Iraq without congressional approval. His work over the decades was recognized with countless honors and awards, including the 1994 John F.
Gonzalez became an increasingly vocal critic of many U.
Gonzalez received national attention as a chairman of the House Assassinations Committee, an organization established to investigate the assassinations of John F. Thereafter Gonzalez worked for a language translation service and served briefly as deputy director of the Bexar County Housing Authority. He championed the issues of America's working families, fighting tirelessly for economic justice, civil rights, banking reform, and affordable housing. Henry Gonzalez will forever be remembered as a man of conviction and humility who devoted his life to lifting people up and building bridges of understanding. He remained the representative for Texas for the next thirty-seven years, never facing a serious challenge for his seat.
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