Joaquin Castro
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Castro served as the mayor of his native San Antonio, Texas from 2009 until he joined Barack Obama's cabinet in 2014. Castro was mentioned as a possible running mate for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign. He is the twin brother of Congressman Joaquin Castro.
Castro is the son of Jesse Guzman and Rosie Castro and the identical twin brother of Julián Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio and the 16th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; he is one minute younger than Julián.
Jul 31, 2019 · You may not have realized it, but 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro—the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the Obama administration—has a twin brother, U.S. Congressman Joaquin Castro, and both of their high-profile paths in politics have been similar.
- Evan Ross Katz
Jan 23, 2015 · Rep. Joaquin Castro, left, and his twin brother, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro. ( National Journal) January 23, 2015. On a summer morning in 1999, Joaquin and...
Joaquin’s identical twin brother, Julián Castro, was elected in 2013 to his third term as Mayor of San Antonio. On July 28, 2014, Julian Castro was sworn in as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Oct 10, 2014 · But now the brothers are both in Washington, where Julian Castro is the newly installed secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and Joaquin Castro is a freshman...
Aug 29, 2012 · Joaquín Castro — the younger brother by one minute — has meanwhile been advocating for a clean energy economy in the state legislature, and he hopes to do the same next year in Congress.
