5/24/2023 0 Comments Army flickrHis paternal grandmother, Juanita Iberri, was born in Arizona, one of 19 children born to an immigrant father from Sonora, Mexico, and an Arizona-born mother whose father and mother were both Mexican. He married a Mexican woman and became a judge. Salvador was brought by his family to the United States as a child after his father, Massimo "Max" Garcetti, was murdered by hanging during the Mexican Revolution. Garcetti's paternal grandfather, Salvador, was born in Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico. He is the son of Sukey (née Roth) and Gil Garcetti, the former Los Angeles County District Attorney. Garcetti was born on February 4, 1971, in Los Angeles, and was raised in Encino in the San Fernando Valley. Upon nomination of President Joe Biden after a previously failed nomination the year before, Garcetti was finally confirmed as Ambassador to India by the Senate on a 52-42 vote on March 15, 2023. He was elected as the youngest mayor in over 100 years, having been 42 at the time of his inauguration. He was the city's first elected Jewish mayor, and its second consecutive Mexican American mayor. A former member of the Los Angeles City Council, Garcetti served as City Council President from 2006 to 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected in the 2013 election, and reelected in 2017. He previously served as the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles from 2013 until 2022. Eric Michael Garcetti (born February 4, 1971) is an American politician and diplomat who has been the United States Ambassador to India since March 24, 2023.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |