Esteban Edward Torres

Esteban Edward Torres

Infobox_Congressman
name =Esteban E. Torres


date of birth= birth date and age|1930|01|27
place of birth= Miami, Arizona
death_date =
death_place =
state = California
district = 38th
term_start = January 3, 1983
term_end = January 6, 1999
preceded = Dan Lungren
succeeded = Grace Napolitano
party = Democrat
religion = Roman Catholic
spouse = Arcy Sanchez Torres
residence = West Covina, California

Esteban Edward Torres (born January 27, 1930) is a politician from the state of California. Torres was born in Miami, Arizona to Rena Gómez. His father was a miner who was deported to Mexico in the 1930s despite being an U.S. citizen. [http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=e2c898c82671fc971ec46d6fef3845bf Chopped Lives]

He served in the United States Army from 1949 to 1953. Active in the labor movement, he was appointed United States Ambassador to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, France, from 1977 to 1979 and served as a special assistant to President Jimmy Carter from 1979 to 1981. [ [http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/congress/torres.html Hispanic Americans in Congress - Torres ] ]

Torres was unsuccessful in his attempt to win a seat in the House of Representatives in 1974, but was elected in 1982 as a Democrat. He served from 1983 until 1999. He did not run for reelection in 1998 and was succeeded by Democrat Grace Napolitano.

He is currently a member of the California Transportation Commission [ [http://www.catc.ca.gov/ctcstaff/members.htm California Transportation Commission (CTC): Commissioners ] ] and resides in West Covina, California with his wife Arcy Sanchez Torres.

ee also

*Esteban E. Torres NCLR-Harvard Mid-Career Fellowship Program

External links

* [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000316 Congressional biography]

References


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