Filemon Bartolome Vela Jr.
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 34th district |
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Assumed office January 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency established |
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Filemon Bartolome Vela Jr. February 13, 1963 Harlingen, Texas, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Rose Vela |
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Georgetown University (BA) University of Texas School of Law (JD) |
| Website | House website |
Filemón Bartolomé Vela Jr. /ˈfɪləˌmɒn ˈvɛlə/ (born February 13, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician who has been the U.S. Representative for Texas's 34th congressional district since 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Vela was born in Harlingen, Texas and raised in Brownsville, Texas. His father, Filemon Bartolome Vela Sr., was a long-serving United States federal judge. The Reynaldo G. Garza-Filemon B. Vela United States Courthouse in Brownsville is named in Judge Vela's honor. His mother, Blanca Sanchez Vela, served as Brownsville’s first female mayor from 1999 to 2003.
Filemon attended Saint Joseph Academy in Brownsville, Texas, and went on to graduate from Georgetown University in 1985. During his time at Georgetown, he served as an intern at the Federal Judicial Center – the research and education agency of the federal judicial system. He also served as an intern in Congressman Solomon P Ortiz’s Washington, D.C. office. Vela earned his J.D. from University of Texas at Austin School of Law in 1987.
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