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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ( Il-ee-AH-nə ross LAY-tən-ən; née Ileana Carmen Ros y Adato; born July 15, 1952) is an American politician and lobbyist from Miami who represented Florida's 27th congressional district from 1989 to 2019. At the end of her tenure, she was the most senior U.S. Representative from Florida. She was chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 2011–2013. In 1989, she won a special election becoming the first Cuban American elected to Congress. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the 17,624th most popular politician (up from 17,849th in 2024), the 168th most popular biography from Cuba (up from 174th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Cuban Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ranks 17,624 out of 19,576. Before her are Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Françoise Nyssen, Ilya Ponomarev, Robert F. Wagner, Tamás Faragó, and Mikola Statkevich. After her are Eowa of Mercia, Patrick M. Shanahan, Robert P. Patterson, Pavel Grudinin, Mihály Hesz, and Sophia Duleep Singh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ranks 673. Before her are Oliver Knussen, James Fleet, Billy Powell, Ellen McLain, Maria Damanaki, and Tamás Faragó. After her are Miguel Ángel Neira, Arun Jaitley, Manuel Nájera, Hughie Thomasson, Ralph Merkle, and Leon Wilkeson.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ranks 168 out of 300. Before her are Roberto Balado (1969), Alejandro Castro Espín (1965), Carmen Reinhart (1955), Maritza Martén (1963), Carlos Gutierrez (1953), and Armando Martínez (1961). After her are Hipólito Ramos (1956), Melissa Vargas (1999), Ángel Herrera Vera (1957), Regla Bell (1970), Ariel Hernández (1970), and Héctor Lombard (1978).

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Among POLITICIANS In Cuba

Among politicians born in Cuba, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ranks 45. Before her are Miguel Mariano Gómez (1889), Carlos Hevia (1900), Mireya Luis (1967), Guillermo Fariñas (1962), Alejandro Mayorkas (1959), and Carlos Gutierrez (1953). After her are John H. Sununu (1939), Orlando Zapata (1967), Alexei Ramírez (1981), Yasniel Toledo (1989), Carlos Banteux (1986), and Lázaro Borges (1986).

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