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Book

Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012

Call Number

  • R 920 H67314 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Washington, DC : For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office

Physical Description

ix, 764 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

Summary

"A compilation of historical essays and short biographies about 91 Hispanic-Americans who served in Congress from 1822 to 2012"--Provided by publisher.

Notes

Editor, Matthew A. Wasniewski, Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives; co-editors, Albin Kowalewski, Laura Turner O'Hara, and Terrance Rucker, Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives.

Also issued as serial number 14905 in the United States congressional serial set.

Contents

  • Part I. Former Hispanic American members of Congress
  • "Like children under a bad stepmother" : Hispanic congressional representation in the era of U.S. continental expansion, 1822-1898
  • "Foreign in a domestic sense" : Hispanic Americans in Congress during the age of American colonialism and global expansion, 1898-1945
  • Separate interests to national agendas : Hispanic American members of Congress in the civil rights era, 1945-1976
  • Strength in numbers, challenges in diversity : legislative trends and power sharing among Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1977 to present
  • Part II. Current Hispanic American members of Congress
  • Appendices
  • Appendix A: First-term Hispanic-American members of the 112th Congress
  • Appendix B: Hispanic-American representatives and senators by Congress, 1822-2012
  • Appendix C: Hispanic-American representatives, senators, delegates, and resident commissioners by state and territory
  • Appendix D: Hispanic-American members' committee assignments (Standing, Joint, Select) in the U.S. House and Senate, 1822-2012
  • Appendix E: Hispanic Americans who have chaired congressional committees, 2012
  • Appendix F: Hispanic-American chairs of subcommittees of standing committees in the U.S. House and Senate, 1949-present
  • Appendix G: Hispanic Americans in U.S. House party leadership positions, 1987-2012
  • Appendix H: Hispanic-American familial connections in Congress
  • Appendix I: Congressional Hispanic Caucus and Congressional Hispanic Conference chairmen and chairwomen, 1976-2012
  • Appendix J: Constitutional amendments, treaties, and major acts of Congress referenced in the text
  • Appendix K: Glossary.

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