Raul Hector Castro

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Raul Hector Castro (ca.1939)

Raul Hector Castro (born June 12, 1916 in Cananea , Mexico , † April 10, 2015 in San Diego , California ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ). He was governor of the US state of Arizona from 1975 to 1977 .

Career

His family immigrated to the United States during his childhood and settled in Pirtleville , Arizona. Castro was naturalized in 1939. In the same year he received his Bachelor of Arts from Northern Arizona University . He then served as an officer in the United States Department of State in the 1940s . Castro received his Juris Doctor from the University of Arizona in 1949 . He then practiced as a lawyer for five years. From 1955 to 1959 he was a Pima County attorney . He was then a judge at the Pima County Superior Court from 1959 to 1964 .

President Lyndon B. Johnson named him United States Ambassador to El Salvador in 1964 . He held this position until 1968. He was then ambassador to Bolivia from 1968 to 1969 . He made history in 1974 when he became the first Mexican-American to be elected Governor of Arizona. He held the office from January 6, 1975 to October 20, 1977. He left office early to serve as Ambassador to Argentina under President Jimmy Carter until 1980 . He was there successor to Robert C. Hill .

Since Albert Rosellini's death in 2011, he has been the oldest surviving former governor of any US state. He died on April 10, 2015 at the age of 98 in a nursing home in San Diego, California.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Associated Press : Raul Castro dies at 98; Arizona's only Latino governor. In: Los Angeles Times of April 10, 2015 (accessed April 11, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Castro, Raul Hector
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Cananea , Mexico
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2015
Place of death San Diego , California, United States