Raul Grijalva
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| Raul Grijalva | |||
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| U.S. Representative from Arizona's 3rd Congressional District From: January 3, 2013 – present | |||
| Predecessor | Ben Quayle | ||
| Successor | Incumbent (no successor) | ||
| U.S. Representative from Arizona's 7th Congressional District From: January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2013 | |||
| Predecessor | constituency established | ||
| Successor | Ed Pastor | ||
| Information | |||
| Party | Democrat | ||
| Spouse(s) | Ramona F. Grijalva | ||
| Religion | Roman Catholic | ||
Raul M. Grijalva (born February 19, 1948 in Tucson, Arizona) is the Democratic party representative from Arizona's 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House, first elected in 2012. He became chairman emeritus of the Congressional Progressive Caucus in 2019.
Formerly he served five terms as the representative for Arizona's 7th district. Grijalva is the longest-serving member of Arizona's congressional delegation to the 116th Congress. He is a member of the Education and the Workforce Committee and Natural Resources Committee.
Grijalva endorsed the anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street movement and sponsored of the totalitarian Green New Deal.[1]