Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

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American politician (born 1952)

United States PoliticiansBorn 1952 · age 74

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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is an American politician and lobbyist from Miami who represented Florida's 27th congressional district from 1989 to 2019. S. Representative from Florida. She was chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 2011-2013.

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Ros-Lehtinen (right) being sworn in as a member of Congress by Chief Judge Kevin Michael Moore (left), along with Florida colleagues Carlos Curbelo, Frederica Wilson, and Mario Díaz-Balart in February 2015

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Awards 3

2018Order of Propitious Clouds

2008Florida Women's Hall of Fame

2006Great Immigrants Award

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SpouseDexter Lehtinen

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Chris EvertAlso won Florida Women's Hall of Fame

Djimon HounsouAlso won Great Immigrants Award

Gustaf V of SwedenAlso won Order of Propitious Clouds

Hussein of JordanAlso won Order of Propitious Clouds

Christopher HitchensAlso won Great Immigrants Award

Althea GibsonAlso won Florida Women's Hall of Fame

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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is an American politician and lobbyist from Miami who represented Florida's 27th congressional district from 1989 to 2019. At the end of her tenure, she was the most senior U.S. Representative from Florida. She was chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 2011-2013. In 1989, she won a special election becoming the first Cuban American elected to Congress. She was also the first Republican woman elected to the House from Florida. Ros-Lehtinen gave the first Republican response to the State of the Union address in Spanish in 2011, and gave the third in 2014.

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