Henry Barbosa González (born Enrique Barbosa González; [1] May 3, 1916 – November 28, 2000) was an American Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Texas, who represented Texas's 20th congressional district from 1961 to 1999. [2] He is the longest serving Hispanic in Congress and a founding member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. [3]

2007年9月13日 · González, Henry Barbosa (1916–2000). Henry B. González, longtime Democratic congressman and civil rights crusader, was born Enrique Barbosa Prince de González on May 3, 1916, in San Antonio, one of six children of Mexican immigrants Leonides González and Genoveva Barbosa Prince de González.

Henry B. Gonzalez was the first Mexican American elected to the Texas Senate, in 1956; the first Mexican American to run for governor, in 1958; and the first Mexican American elected...

Veteran U.S. Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez is credited with having paved the way for other Hispanics to succeed in politics. The first Mexican American to be elected to the Texas State Senate in modern times, Gonzalez represented the state's 20th district in Washington, D.C., for more than 30 years.

2016年4月30日 · Gonzalez, a maverick legislator whose 37 years on Capitol Hill were marked by a passionate defense of the common man and sometimes quixotic battles, died Nov. 28, 2000, in a San Antonio hospital.

Henry González served 37 years in the House, making him the longest-serving Hispanic Member in Congress. A pioneering, populist figure in Texas state politics, he was revered by his hometown constituents, who knew him as “Henry B.” González rejected radical reformers, pursuing a strategy of effecting change from within the system.

Longtime congressman and civil rights pioneer Henry B. González—affectionately known by his constituents as "Henry B."—was born in San Antonio in 1916. González's political career began in the fifties, when he served on the San Antonio City Council and, later, in the Texas Senate.

On this date, Enrique Barbosa González—widely known as “Henry B.”—was born in San Antonio, Texas. The first Mexican American from his home state to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, González spent nearly four decades in Congress where he championed civil rights and housing access while seeking to make government institutions ...

A pioneering, populist figure in Texas state politics, he was revered by his hometown constituents, who knew him as “Henry B.” gonzález rejected radical reformers, pursuing a strategy of efecting change from within the system.

Longtime congressman and civil rights pioneer Henry B. González was born in San Antonio in 1916. González's political career began in the fifties, when he served on the San Antonio City Council and, later, in the Texas Senate. He made his name by speaking out against segregation and fighting rate hikes by public utilities.