1. Xavier Louis Suarez was born on May 21,1949 and is an American politician who was the first Cuban-born mayor of Miami and was a Miami-Dade county commissioner.
11 Facts About Xavier Suarez
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Xavier Suarez was born on May 21,1949, in Las Villas, Cuba.
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Xavier Suarez earned a Bachelor of Engineering from Villanova University in 1971, followed by a Master of Public Policy and Juris Doctor from Harvard University.
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Xavier Suarez was re-elected in 1987 and again in 1989 for a four-year term.
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In 1993 Xavier Suarez got the Latin Builder's Association to donate $150,000 to rebuild the only Catholic elementary school in Overtown.
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Xavier Suarez decided not to run again in 1993 in order to spend more time with his family.
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Xavier Suarez returned to practice law in Miami before he decided to run again in November 1997 and was re-elected.
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Xavier Suarez was elected as a Miami-Dade County Commissioner for District 7 on May 24,2011 and was re-elected by a 44 point margin on August 30,2016.
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Xavier Suarez was in disagreement with Mandela's comments where he referred to Cuban President Fidel Castro as a "comrade in arms" due to Castro's support for the African National Congress.
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Xavier Suarez was the ninth child and second son of 14 children of Manuel Suarez-Carreno, the first Dean of the School of Engineering at the, and Eloisa Gaston.
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Xavier Suarez is married to Rita and they have four children: Francis Xavier Suarez, who became Mayor of Miami in 2017, Olga Marie Vieira, Anna Teresita, and Carolina Suarez.