Hector P. Garcia, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetHector P. Garcia
American physician
Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1914
Date of Death: 26-Jul-1996
Profession: physician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Hector P. Garcia
- HĂ©ctor PĂ©rez GarcĂa (January 17, 1914 – July 26, 1996) was a Mexican American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I.
- Forum.
- As a result of the national prominence he earned through his work on behalf of Hispanic Americans, he was instrumental in the appointment of Vicente T.
- Ximenes, a Mexican American and American G.I.
- Forum charter member, to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1966.Garcia was named as alternate representative to the United Nations in 1967, was appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights in 1968, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1984; and was named to the Order of St.
- Gregory the Great by Pope John Paul II in 1990.
- In 1998, he was posthumously awarded the Aguila Azteca, Mexico's highest award for foreigners, in a ceremony in Corpus Christi.
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