Carlos López-Cantera
Carlos López-Cantera (born December 29, 1973 in Madrid ) is an American politician of Spanish descent. He is a member of the Republican Party and served as Lieutenant Governor of the State of Florida from March 2014 to January 2019 . López-Cantera was previously a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 2005 to 2013 .
Career
López-Cantera was born in 1973 in the Spanish capital, Madrid , while his parents of Spanish origin were staying there. A short time later the family returned to Miami , USA , where he was supposed to be born. After attending school, he studied business administration at the University of Miami , where he graduated in 1996.
López-Cantera gained his first political experience as an assistant in the Justice Committee of the State Senate of Florida . In November 2002 the Republican López-Cantera ran for the first time unsuccessfully for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives . Two years later he was re-elected and this time was elected. As a result, López-Cantera was able to take up his new mandate as a member of the State Legislature in January 2005 . After several re-elections, he was a member of parliament until early 2013. He then worked briefly as a public appraiser for Miami-Dade County .
After Florida lieutenant governor Jennifer Carroll resigned due to corruption allegations in 2013, Governor Rick Scott López-Cantera was nominated as his successor. In February 2014, both houses of the legislature confirmed his appointment as lieutenant governor for the remaining eleven months of the electoral term. On February 3, 2014, he took the oath of office as deputy governor. This makes him the first Latino to hold this post. In the run-up to the gubernatorial elections in 2014 , Governor Scott declared that he wanted to run with López-Cantera as running mate . On November 4, 2014, the Republican duo won a narrow election. In January 2015, López-Cantera took on a full four-year term as Deputy Governor Scott.
In the summer of 2015, Lopez-Cantera announced that he would apply for the Republican candidacy for Marco Rubio's vacant mandate in the US Senate in 2016. His party colleague Marco Rubio initially aimed at re-election, preferring instead for the president to run . After leaving the election campaign in March, Rubio initially stuck to his stance, but decided to run for office in June. As a result, López-Cantera withdrew his application in favor of Rubios, with whom he is also a private friend.
After Governor Scott was unable to run again for the 2018 election and instead successfully applied for a seat in the US Senate , it was initially reported that López-Cantera would take over the governorship for five days on January 3, 2019. The reason for this was that Scott's term as Senator officially begins on that day, but his term as governor does not end until January 7, 2019. Since he cannot hold both offices at the same time and the term of office of the newly elected Governor Ron DeSantis does not begin until January 8, López-Cantera should fill the governorship for this period of five days. The same was already the case in January 1987, when the outgoing Governor Bob Graham was elected to the Senate and his Lieutenant Governor Wayne Mixson had to bridge a few days before the end of his term of office. Between December 1998 and January 1999 Buddy MacKay served as the successor to the late Lawton Chiles, also for a short period as governor, while a successor was already determined by the previous election. López-Cantera himself had decided against a possible candidacy for Scott's successor in the office of governor in the run-up to the 2018 election. In December 2018, however, Scott announced that he would postpone his swearing-in as a senator, thereby ending his period as governor.
Private
López-Cantera has been married since 2005 and has two daughters.
Web links
- Presentation on the governor's website
Individual evidence
- ^ Representative Carlos Lopez-Cantera , Florida House of Representatives
- ↑ Gov. Rick Scott announces Carlos Lopez-Cantera as new lt. Governor , Miami Herald, January 14, 2014
- ↑ Surprise! Florida's Next Governor Won't Be DeSantis Or Gillum , The Capitolist, November 15, 2018
- ↑ Rick Scott Will Finish His Term As Governor Of Florida, Delays Joining US Senate For 5 Days , WLRN, December 4, 2018 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | López-Cantera, Carlos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid , Spain |