Sen. Ruben Gallego

Ruben Gallego has represented Arizona in the U.S. Senate since January 2025, the first Latino to hold the seat. He served ten years in the U.S. House, where he was the highest-ranking Latino on the House Armed Services Committee, and three years in the Arizona House of Representatives.

He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and deployed to Iraq in 2005 with a company that took some of the heaviest casualties of the war. Raised on the South Side of Chicago by his mother alongside three sisters, he earned his A.B. from Harvard in 2004.