Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jul 15, 1952(1952-07-15)
Age	72
Birthplace	Havana
Country	Cuba
Horoscope	Cancer

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Biography

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on July 15, 1952 in Havana, Cuba. While serving as a United States Representative from Florida’s 18th and 27th congressional districts, this Cuban-born Republican Party politician briefly chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

She was elected to the United States Congress following the death of Democratic Florida representative Claude Pepper.

Ileana Ros y Adato was born in Havana, Cuba, one of two children born to Enrique Ros (1924–2013), who later became a businessman and anti-Fidel Castro activist, and his wife, Amanda Adato. The family immigrated to the United States when Ileana was seven years old. She received her Bachelor of Arts in education and her Master of Arts in educational leadership from Florida International University. She attended the University of Miami where she earned an Ed.D in higher education.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (/ˌ ɪ l i ˈ ɑː n ə ˈ r ɒ s ˈ l eɪ t ən ə n / ; born Ileana Carmen Ros y Adato, July 15, 1952) is a politician and lobbyist from Miami, Florida who represented Florida’s 27th congressional district from 1989 to

2019. By the end of her tenure, she was the most senior U.S. Representative from Florida. She was Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 2011–2013. In 1989, Ros-Lehtinen won a special election and became the first Cuban American and Latina elected to Congress. She was also the first Republican woman elected to the House from Florida. Ros-Lehtinen gave the first Republican response to the State of the Union address in Spanish in 2011, and gave the third in 2014.

Born Ileana Ros y Adato, she grew up in Havana, Cuba and Florida, U.S.A., as the child of Amanda Adato and business executive Enrique Ros. Her marriage to attorney Dexter Lehtinen resulted in two children: Patricia and transgender activist Rodrigo (whose birth name was Amanda).

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Net Worth

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is one of the richest Politician from Cuba. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Florida International University and went on to receive a doctorate in Education from the University of Miami. While working as an educator, she entered politics as a member of the Florida House of Representatives.

She was the first Latina; the first female Florida Republican; and the first Cuban-born person to serve in the United States Congress.

Ros-Lehtinen was raised Catholic and is now an Episcopalian. Ros-Lehtinen’s maternal grandparents were Sephardic Jews, originally from the Ottoman Empire, who had been active in Cuba’s Jewish community. Her maternal grandfather left the city of Kırklareli for Cuba in 1913, fleeing the devastation and economic collapse caused by the First Balkan War. Her mother later converted to Catholicism to marry her father.

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Who is Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Dating?

According to our records, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen married to Dexter Lehtinen. As of December 1, 2023, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s is not dating anyone.

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In 2003, she received a 0% rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America. In 2006, she received a 100% rating from the National Right to Life Committee for her abortion-related voting record. She is against allowing federal funds and federal health coverage for abortions. She wants to stop embryonic stem cell research. She has voted to make it a crime to harm a fetus while committing a crime. She is against partial-birth abortions unless it is necessary to save the mother’s life. She has voted to ban minors from being transported to receive an abortion and wants to prohibit minors from traveling over state lines for abortions.

Facts & Trivia

Ileana Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Cuba. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen celebrates birthday on July 15 of every year.

Ros-Lehtinen joined Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) on a congressional delegation to the United Nations in order to encourage international support for an end to the genocide in Darfur. In addition, when Ros-Lehtinen returned from a trip to Darfur in April 2007 where she visited Sudanese refugee camps, she strongly encouraged the United States and the international community to find a solution to this humanitarian crisis.