Still serving · 2025–
Marco Rubio
Secretary of State
West Miami, Spanish at the table, 99–0 at Foggy Bottom. First Cuban American speaker of the Florida House. Highest-ranking Hispanic official in American history.
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Career
Awards, firsts, the work
Speaker of the Florida House at 35
Elected to the Florida House in 2000. Sworn as speaker in November 2006 — the first Cuban American to hold the gavel. Two years of the chair in Tallahassee before the Senate race.
SourceUniversity of Miami LawThree terms in the United States Senate
Won in a three-way 2010 race and kept the seat through a presidential run. Senior member of Foreign Relations. Vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee. The China bills, the Uyghur file, Venezuela sanctions, the Cuba brief — that was the committee work.
SourceU.S. EmbassyOrder of the Star of Romania
Commander of the Order of the Star of Romania, 2017. Later, an Everglades Champions Award and a 2024 Democracy Award for Innovation and Modernization. Foreign gongs and a swamp prize — the Florida mix.
SourceWikipedia, honorsSecretary of State, 99–0
Confirmed hours after the inauguration, 99 to 0 — the first cabinet officer of the term. Highest-ranking Hispanic American in the history of the federal government. The cable now runs through a Miami-born Spanish speaker who spent fourteen years on the committee he now sits above.
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