Alex P. Garcia

Alex P. Garcia (June 22, 1929 – April 10, 1999) was an American politician in the state of California.He married Blanche Alvarez in 1948; his children are Alex, Jr., twins Daniel and Thomas, Cecilia and Catherine.[3] Garcia, from Los Angeles, was the third Latino Democrat elected in 1968 to the Assembly.Together they formed the Chicano Legislative Caucus in 1973, along with three more Latinos, Joseph B. Montoya, Ray Gonzales, and Richard Alatorre, who elected to the State Assembly in 1972.The Caucus worked to create, and implement laws that serve to extend, protect, and reserve the rights of Californian Latinos, a first in California legislative history.
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