Based on newspaper sources and extensive oral histories, this biography examines the political career of Raymond Tellez, the first Mexican American mayor of El Paso. Tellez' political career began in 1948, when he won a hotly contested election for county clerk. The author details the life of the most significant Mexican American politician in El Paso's history.
Mario T. Garcia is a native of El Paso, Texas, and a Professor of History and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of "Desert immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920" and "Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology and Identity, 1930-1960."
ISBN 0-87404-276-3 Paperback $12.50
6x9, 187 pg., photos, endnotes, biblio 1998
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