Oscar De Los Santos | |
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Minority Leader of the Arizona House of Representatives | |
Assumed office January 13, 2025 | |
Preceded by | Lupe Contreras |
Member of the ArizonaHouseofRepresentatives from the 11th district | |
Assumed office January 9,2023 Servingwith Junelle Cavero | |
Preceded by | Mark Finchem |
Personal details | |
Born | Los Angeles,California,U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Education | University of Southern California (BA) St Antony's College,Oxford (MPP) Union Theological Seminary (MA) Yale University (JD) |
Oscar De Los Santos is an American politician. He is a Democratic member of the Arizona House of Representatives elected to represent District 11 in 2022. [1]
De Los Santos was born in Los Angeles to Gregorio and María Dolores,both immigrants from Tenamaxtlán. [2] In 2015,De Los Santos completed a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Southern California,where he graduated magna cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. [2] He was also a Truman scholar.
As a Rhodes Scholar,he completed a master's in public policy from St Antony's College,Oxford in 2018. [3] He earned a master's degree in Christian social ethics from the Union Theological Seminary in 2020. [2] He is a Juris Doctor student at Yale Law School and received a Paul &Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans in 2022. [2]
In 2012,De Los Santos was the youngest Florida field organizer for the Obama campaign. [4] From 2015 to 2016,he taught English and social studies to sixth graders at Champion South Mountain School in Phoenix,Arizona. [4] He also interned for the National Economic Council and the U.S. House Of Representatives. [4] De Los Santos was a lobbyist and head of public policy for the Association of Arizona Food Banks. [2] [4]
During the 2022 Arizona House of Representatives election,De Los Santos was elected to represent the 11th district. [1] He is the first out LGBT person to represent the district. [1]