An edition of Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012
(2013)
Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012
by Matthew A. Wasniewski
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Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012
2013, U.S. Government Printing Office, United States Government Printing Office
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0160920280 9780160920288
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Table of 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.
Edition 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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