Ruben Hinojosa
| Rubén Hinojosa | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 15th district |
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In office January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Kika de la Garza |
| Succeeded by | Vicente González |
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August 20, 1940 Edcouch, Texas, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Martha Lopez |
| Residence | Mercedes, Texas |
| Alma mater | University of Texas-Pan American |
| Occupation | Grocery executive |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Rubén Eloy Hinojosa (born August 20, 1940) is a former U.S. Representative for Texas's 15th congressional district, serving from 1997 to 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district stretches from Seguin (east of San Antonio), to McAllen on the Mexican border. Much of the region is rural although Hidalgo County is part of the third fastest-growing metropolitan statistical area in the country. Hinojosa served on the House Financial Services and Education committees.
Hinojosa was born in Edcouch, Texas. The eighth of eleven children, Hinojosa was reared in Hidalgo County, which borders on Mexico, and earned two business degrees, a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin and his MBA from the University of Texas-Pan American. For two decades, he was the president and chief financial officer of his family's food processing company, H&H Foods. U.S. President Ronald Reagan named H&H the “Number One Minority-Owned Business in America” in 1983. In 1987, the U.S. Small Business Administration named the Hinojosas “Minority Entrepreneur of the Year.”
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