Orlando Sanchez (politician)

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Orlando Sanchez (born October 14, 1957) is an American politician who served as the treasurer of Harris County, Texas, from 2007 to 2018. A naturalized US citizen, Sanchez has made political history as the first Latino immigrant to be elected to a citywide position in Houston, when he won the at-large seat on the city council, to which he was twice re-elected in consecutive terms, serving 1995–2001. In 2001 and 2003 he ran for mayor of Houston, gaining an alliance with Republican Anglos and generating high voter turnout in the Hispanic community. Both times he made it to the runoffs. When elected as treasurer of Harris County, he was the first Latino immigrant to win a countywide, non-judicial elected office in that county.

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