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In 1969 Henry Cisneros married his high school sweet heart, Mary Alice Perez. They have two daughters, Teresa and Mercedes, and a son John Paul. Early career. Cisneros' community-building career began in urban public service, and setting in motion a focus he would maintain through his entire career to present.
Through letters from parents of children with similar problems, Henry found out about two specialists in Philadelphia who had experience in treating children with complex heart defects. He ...
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Henry Cisneros first ran for the city council in 1975, at a time when the Good Government League—San Antonio’s business-as-usual Anglo ruling party of that era—was starting to lose its ...
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Born in 1947, Henry Cisneros was the eldest of five children of Mexican-American George and Mexican-born Elvira Cisneros. Henry was raised in what was later described as a model home environment for an upwardly mobile ethnic family.
He was the oldest of five children of a Mexican-American father, a civilian administrator at a U.S. Army base, and a Mexican-expatriate mother, the daughter of a renowned dissident journalist and intellectual. Cisneros's parents spoke Spanish at home but switched to English when their children were born.
Henry was the eldest of five children Elvira and George Cisneros raised on Monterey Street, a bright boy who loved building make-believe cities in the dirt. He read the classics and played French ...
