Raúl M. Grijalva (born February 19, 1948) is an American politician from Arizona. He has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003 and represents Arizona's 7th congressional district and is a Democrat. The district includes half of metro Tucson, all of Yuma and Nogales, and some peripheral parts of metro Phoenix.
Raúl Grijalva's father was a migrant worker from Mexico who entered the United States in 1945 through the ...
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Raúl M. Grijalva (born February 19, 1948) is an American politician from Arizona. He has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003 and represents Arizona's 7th congressional district and is a Democrat. The district includes half of metro Tucson, all of Yuma and Nogales, and some peripheral parts of metro Phoenix.
Raúl Grijalva's father was a migrant worker from Mexico who entered the United States in 1945 through the Bracero Program and labored on southern Arizona ranches. Raúl was born in Tucson, Arizona, and graduated from Sunnyside Magnet High School in 1967. Grijalva is a 2004 inductee to the Sunnyside High School Alumni Hall of Fame. He attended the University of Arizona and earned a bachelor's degree in Sociology. While at the university, he was a member of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA).In 1974, he was elected to the Tucson Unified School District board and served as a school board member until 1986. The Grijalva Elementary School...
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