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  2. 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.

  3. Nov 25, 2014 · The high profile achieved by Henry and the other Cisneros siblings obscured the role Elvira played in the city in an era when women, especially Mexican-American women, had to make their own opportunities to advance. World War II interrupted her studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

  4. May 3, 2024 · Henry Cisneros is an American politician who, as mayor of San Antonio (1981–89), was the first Latino to serve as mayor of a major U.S. city in the 20th century and who served as secretary of housing and urban development (1993–97) under U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton.

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  5. Jul 30, 2016 · The couple had five childrenHenry, Pauline, George Jr., Tim, and Christina. Cisneross devotion to family led her to care for siblings, husband, and children throughout her life. She cared for her youngest brother, Henry, who passed away from Hodgkin’s disease in 1943, and her youngest sister, Stella, died of polio.

  6. 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.

  7. Henry Gabriel Cisneros was born on June 11, 1947, in San Antonio. He grew up in a Mexican American neighborhood with his parents and his four siblings. Cisneros graduated from Texas A&M University in 1968 with a degree in English. He continued his education at Texas A&M, Harvard University, and George Washington University.

  8. 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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