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Campaign website. Antonio Ramón Villaraigosa ( / ˌviːəraɪˈɡoʊsə /; né Villar Jr. on January 23, 1953) is an American politician who served as the 41st Mayor of Los Angeles from 2005 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Villaraigosa was a national co-chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, a member of President ...
May 8, 2005 · Villaraigosa has since met his half-brother, and said he sees no reason to dwell on the past. “Maybe all that anger as a kid was therapeutic,” he said. “I don’t look back.
May 3, 2024 · Villaraigosa (whose name is an amalgamation of his own family name, Villar, and that of Corina Raigosa, whom he married in 1987 and divorced in 2007) grew up in a predominantly Latino area of East Los Angeles, where he and his three younger siblings were raised by their mother.
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One by one, half a dozen boys shook Villaraigosa’s hand and then recited a poem together about character-building. Villaraigosa was impressed. “C’mon little brothers,” he said, throwing ...
Antonio Villaraigosa, the first L.A. mayor of Latino descent in 133 years, was elected to office on May 17, 2005. May 2005 - Antonio Villaraigosa Elected; L.A.'s First Latino Mayor in Modern Times | KCET 50th Anniversary | PBS SoCal
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Mar 5, 2014 · Antonio Villaraigosa, the mayor of Los Angeles from 2005 to 2013, wants to be remembered as the guy who brought mass transit to L.A., who smashed crime—and finally gave the city a real downtown.
Summer 1999 - Antonio Villaraigosa. In 1969, Cathedral High expelled him, the rebellious junior from East L.A. who led student protests, joined fist fights and held a 1.4 GPA. Last December, 29 years later, the small Catholic boys' school awarded its prodigal son a diploma, a class ring and a school jacket at an evening in his honor.
