Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr. was an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. He served as a United States senator from 1971 to 1989 and as the 41st governor of Florida from 1991 to 1998.
Stephen Ernest Stockman is an American politician who is a member of the Republican Party and a convicted felon. He served as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 9th congressional district from 1995 to 1997 and for Texas's 36th congressional district from 2013 to 2015. Stockman ran in the Republican primary for the United States Senate in the 2014 election but lost to incumbent Senator John Cornyn.
John Edward Sweeney is an American politician from the U.S. state of New York. A Republican, he represented New York's 20th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from January 1999 to January 2007. He was dubbed "Congressman Kick-Ass" by President George W. Bush for his take-no-prisoners style. Before being defeated for reelection in 2006 by Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, he was considered a strong candidate for statewide office.
Xavier Louis Suarez is an American politician in who was the first Cuban-born mayor of Miami and was a Miami-Dade county commissioner.
Arthur E. "Art" Teele Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from the Republican Party. In the early 1980s, he served as the head of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration from 1981 to 1983. Born into a wealthy black family in Florida, Teele received an excellent education and became an officer in the US Army, and later had a successful career in private practice and politics. The Miami Herald published claims of legal wrongdoing against Teele during his fight to have a conviction against him overturned, and he committed suicide. Posthumously, his case was appealed and his conviction was overturned, exonerating him of all charges.
Gary L. Pierce is a former Arizona Corporation Commissioner and a former member of the Arizona House of Representatives.
Alex Díaz de la Portilla is a Cuban-American politician from Florida. As of November of 2019, Díaz de la Portilla serves as a City of Miami Commissioner for District 1, which includes the predominantly Hispanic areas of Flagami, Allapattah, and parts of Little Havana. A Republican, he was a member of the Florida Senate from 2000 to 2010, representing parts of Miami-Dade County. Previously, he served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1994 until his election to the Senate.
José Antonio Garcia Jr., known as Joe Garcia, is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S Representative for Florida's 26th congressional district; he was defeated in his 2014 bid for re-election and left office on January 3, 2015. The district includes most of western Miami-Dade County, as well as the Florida Keys. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He is the former executive director of the Cuban American National Foundation and was nominated by President Barack Obama to be director of the Office of Minority Economic Impact and Diversity of the United States Department of Energy, a position for which he was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate.
Carlos Antonio Giménez is a Cuban-born American politician and retired firefighter serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 26th congressional district. A Republican, he served as mayor of Miami-Dade County, Florida, from 2011 to 2020. He previously served as a Miami-Dade County Commissioner from 2003 to 2011, and was the fire chief of the City of Miami Fire Department.
Barack Obama won three Illinois Senate elections. The Illinois Senate career of Barack Obama began in 1997 after his first election in 1996 to a two-year term in the Illinois Senate representing Illinois' 13th Legislative District in Chicago. He was re-elected in 1998 to a four-year term and re-elected again in 2002 to another four-year term. He resigned from the Illinois Senate in 2004 following his election to the U.S. Senate. He resigned from the U.S. Senate following his election in 2008 to become the 44th President of the United States in 2009.
Wilfredo Gort de los Llanos is a Cuban-American politician. Gort was a former City of Miami Commissioner (1993–2001), and in 1996 its mayor (acting). In 2010 Gort returned to the City commission in the special election and was reelected in 2011 and 2015. Gort retired and opted to not run in the 2019 elections being succeeded by Alex Diaz de la Portilla. Gort is the son of photographer, Alfredo “Willy” Gort (1909–2003) and Miami Cuban civic leader, Esther de los Llanos de Gort (1915–1984). He and his parents fled Cuba in 1952 after Fulgencio Batista overthrew the government and moved to Miami. In 1959, after Fidel Castro came to power, he returned to Cuba for 3 days and again went into exile.
Aníbal Salvador Acevedo Vilá is a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer. He served as Governor of Puerto Rico from 2005 to 2009. He is a Harvard University alumnus and a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico School of Law, where he obtained his Juris Doctor degree. Acevedo Vilá has held various public service positions in the Puerto Rico government under the Popular Democratic Party, serving as a member of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico (1993–2001) and as the 17th Resident Commissioner (2001–2005), before he was sworn in as Governor on 2 January 2005. Acevedo Vilá was also a member of the National Governors Association, the Southern Governors' Association and the Democratic Governors Association, and a collaborator of President Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Also he is currently an adjunct professor of the University of Puerto Rico School of Law. He unsuccessfully ran for Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico in the 2020 elections for the Popular Democratic Party.
Tomás Pedro Regalado y Valdez is a Cuban American politician and former broadcast journalist who served as the 42nd mayor of Miami, Florida, from 2009 to 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party, although as Miami mayor his office was nonpartisan.
Jean-Sébastien Lamoureux is a Canadian lawyer, manager and former politician in the province of Quebec. He served in the National Assembly of Quebec as a Liberal from 1998 until his resignation in 2001.
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The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, to elect the 27 U.S. Representatives from the state of Florida, one from each of the state's 27 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices, including a gubernatorial election, other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections. The party primaries were held on August 28, 2018.
Michael Christopher Grieco is an American attorney and politician. A Democrat, Grieco has served in the Florida House of Representatives since 2018, representing the 113th district.
Abraham Kasparian Jr. is an American politician who served on the Hampden County Commission from 1996 to 1998. In 2002 he was convicted of attempted murder after he stabbed his wife in a pizza parlor. While in jail he was awarded $311,000 in a civil suit related to his campaign for county commissioner.
The Cook County, Illinois general election was held on November 5, 2002.
