Mayra Flores
Mayra Flores | |
|---|---|
 Portrait, 2022 | |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 34th district | |
| In office June 21, 2022 – January 3, 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Filemon Vela Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Vicente Gonzalez |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 1, 1986 Burgos, Tamaulipas, Mexico |
| Political party | Republican |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Texas State Technical College, Harlingen (AA) South Texas College (BS) |
Mayra Nohemi Flores (born January 1, 1986) is a Mexican-born American politician. She is a member of the Republican Party. She was a member of the United States House of Representatives for Texas's 34th congressional district from 2022 to 2023.
Political career
[change | change source]She won the special election to replace former Congressman Filemon Vela Jr.[1][2] She is the first Mexican-born woman to be a member of the United States Congress.[3]
Before her election to Congress, Flores used hashtags supporting the QAnon conspiracy theory on an Instagram post, though she has denied ever being a supporter of QAnon.[4]
Flores lost her campaign for a full term in the November 2022 midterm elections to Democrat Vicente Gonzalez in the district that was redrawn that year. She left office in January 2023.[5]
Personal life
[change | change source]Flores was born in Mexico to migrant farmworkers. Her family moved to the U.S. when she was six years old and she gained American citizenship at 14.[6] She was raised in Southern Texas.[7] Even though she was raised in a conservative Democrat immigrant family in Texas, she said she supports the Republican Party because of her anti-abortion views.[8]
Flores has worked as a respiratory therapist and lived in Los Indios, Texas.[9] She is married to a U.S. Border Patrol agent and has four children.[8]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Svitek, Patrick (March 24, 2022). "U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela's resignation announcement sparks a sudden special-election scramble in hotly contested South Texas". Texas Tribune. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
- ↑ Harris, Cayla (April 11, 2022) [April 7, 2022]. "Texas Republican Mayra Flores gets a boost in quest to be first U.S. congresswoman born in Mexico". San Antonio Express-News. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
- ↑ Svitek, Patrick. Republicans flip U.S. House seat in South Texas, historically a Democratic stronghold Archived June 15, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, Texas Tribune, June 14, 2022.
- ↑ Harris, Cayla (2022-04-07). "Texas Republican Mayra Flores gets a boost in quest to be first U.S. congresswoman born in Mexico". San Antonio Express-News. Archived from the original on May 31, 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
- ↑ Gamboa, Suzanne (8 November 2022). "Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez defeats GOP candidate Mayra Flores in TX". NBC News. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
- ↑ Manchester, Julia (June 15, 2022). "Republican Mayra Flores flips House seat in Texas special election". The Hill. Archived from the original on June 17, 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
- ↑ Harris, Cayla. What to know about Texas Republican Mayra Flores, the first congresswoman-elect born in Mexico Archived June 17, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, San Antonio Express-News, June 15, 2022.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Medina, Jennifer (March 1, 2022) [February 28, 2022]. "How Immigration Politics Drives Some Hispanic Voters to the G.O.P. in Texas". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 31, 2022. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
- ↑ Shabad, Rebecca. "Republican Mayra Flores flips House seat in Texas special election". NBC News. Archived from the original on June 15, 2022. Retrieved June 16, 2022.
Other websites
[change | change source]
- Official website Archived 2022-06-23 at the Wayback Machine
- Campaign website Archived 2022-06-21 at the Wayback Machine
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