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Tomás Regalado (American politician)

Tomás P. Regalado
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42nd Mayor of Miami
Assumed office
November 11, 2009
Preceded by Manny Diaz
Miami Commissioner of the 4th district
In office
November 1996 – November 2009
Personal details
Born Tomás Pedro Regalado y Valdez
(1947-05-24) May 24, 1947 (age 69)
Havana, Cuba
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Ana Cristina Carrodeguas
Children Tomás
Raquel
Jose Francisco
Residence Miami, Florida, U.S.
Religion Roman Catholicism
Website Office of the Mayor

Tomás Pedro Regalado (born Tomás Pedro Regalado y Valdez May 24, 1947 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban American politician and former broadcast journalist who serves as the 42nd and current mayor of Miami, Florida. He is a member of the Republican Party.

He served as the news director for Radio Mambí WAQI and as a reporter for Univisión. Regalado was elected mayor on November 3, 2009, and sworn in on November 11.

Born in Havana, Cuba, May 24, 1947, Tomás Pedro Regalado was the first-born child of Tomás Regalado Molina and Carmen Rita Váldez de Regalado. His father was an attorney and a journalist who was the last president of the Cuban Association of Journalists and Reporters and a political prisoner for over 22 years. Prior to leaving Cuba, Tomás attended elementary school at La Salle Catholic School in Havana. In April 1962, when Tomás was 14, he and his younger brother Marcos were placed on a flight to Miami as participants of Operation Peter Pan. The two brothers lived at the boys’ camp in Kendall and then Florida City for several months until their aunt, Silvia Váldez, claimed them. They lived with her until their mother arrived in Miami a year later.

In Miami, Regalado attended high school at Immaculata-Lasalle High School in Coconut Grove and then at the Lindsey Hopkins vocational school. He attended seminars at the University of Miami Koubek Center for journalism.

Regalado became the youngest reporter on staff at WFAB, La Fabulosa. He quickly ascended from reporter to assistant producer. At twenty one, Regalado was hired by WCKT (now WSVN) an NBC affiliate as the Latin American News Editor and host of the news program Tele-Amigo. After two years at WCKT then Channel 7, Regalado returned to WFAB as a news producer and anchor.


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