De la Garza, E

LC control no.	n 85115229
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	De la Garza, E. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Garza, E. de la De la Garza, Kika De la Garza, Eligio
Birth date	1927-09-22
Death date	2017-03-13
Place of birth	Mercedes (Tex.)
Place of death	McAllen (Tex.)
Field of activity	United States--Politics and government Agriculture and state Texas--Politics and government
Affiliation	United States. Congress. House Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupation	Legislators
Found in	His The war we must not lose, 1985: p. 1 (E (Kika) de la Garza, Texas, House Agriculture Committee) Off. cong. dir., 1985-86 (E (Kika) de la Garza; b. in Mercedes, TX, 9/22/27; U.S. Congressman from Texas) OCLC #28511628: Eligio de la Garza, Democratic representative from Texas, 1972 (hdg. De la Garza, E.) Washington post WWW site, viewed Mar. 15, 2017 (Eligio de la Garza, a Texas Democrat who served 32 years in the U.S. House of Representatives and became Agriculture Committee chairman, died March 13 [2017] in McAllen, Tex.; he was 89; Mr. de la Garza, known as Kika, was in 1965 elected to Congress from his heavily Hispanic, largely agricultural South Texas district; he was immediately assigned to the Agriculture Committee and retained that seat for his entire House tenure, becoming its chairman in 1981; held the chairman's gavel until the Republicans took control of the House in 1995, and he retired two years later; born in Mercedes, Tex., on Sept. 22, 1927; received a law degree in 1952 from St. Mary's University in San Antonio and was elected that year to the state House of Representatives; served there until his election to Congress in 1964) Biographical directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, viewed Mar. 15, 2017 (de la GARZA, Eligio, II (Kika), (1927 - 2017); member of the Texas state house of representatives 1952-1964; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1997); chair, Committee on Agriculture (Ninety-seventh through One Hundred Third Congresses; died on March 13, 2017, in McAllen, Tex.)
Associated language	eng