Raúl Héctor Castro, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Raúl Héctor Castro

American judge

Date of Birth: 12-Jun-1916

Place of Birth: Cananea, Sonora, Mexico

Date of Death: 10-Apr-2015

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician, diplomat

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Raúl Héctor Castro

  • Raúl Héctor Castro ( (listen); June 12, 1916 – April 10, 2015) was a Mexican American politician, diplomat and judge.
  • In 1964, Castro was selected to be U.S.
  • Ambassador to El Salvador, a position he held until 1968 when he was appointed U.S.
  • Ambassador to Bolivia.
  • In 1974, Castro was elected to serve as the 14th governor of Arizona, and resigned two years into his term to become U.S.
  • Ambassador to Argentina.
  • Prior to his entry into public service, Castro was a lawyer and a judge for Pima County, Arizona.
  • He was a member of the Democratic Party. A native of Cananea, Sonora, Castro lived in Mexico until 1926 when he emigrated with his family to the U.S.
  • state of Arizona, settling near Douglas.
  • He enrolled in Arizona State Teachers College in Flagstaff, now known as Northern Arizona University, and upon graduation returned to his native Sonora to work for the U.S.
  • Department of State as a foreign service clerk.
  • Subsequently, he returned to Arizona to pursue a career as a lawyer and was graduated from the University of Arizona College of Law.
  • Castro served as deputy county attorney for Pima County, Arizona until he was elected county attorney in 1954, and in 1958 he became a Pima County Superior Court Judge. In 1964, Castro was selected by President Lyndon B.
  • Johnson to become U.S.
  • Ambassador to El Salvador at the recommendation of U.S.
  • Senator Carl Hayden, despite controversy over Castro's surname being associated with Cuban President Fidel Castro.
  • Following a four-year term, he was then appointed to be U.S.
  • Ambassador to Bolivia, and resigned in 1969 to return to Arizona to begin a career in politics.
  • Castro ran for and won the Democratic nomination for Governor of Arizona in the 1970 election, but narrowly lost to incumbent Governor Jack Williams.
  • Castro would decide to run again in the 1974 election and defeated his Republican opponent Russell Williams, a member of the Arizona Corporation Commission, by a thin margin.
  • Only two years into his term, Castro was approached by President Jimmy Carter to become U.S.
  • Ambassador to Argentina, and resigned as Governor of Arizona.
  • Castro left his post as Ambassador in 1980, ending his career in public service, and returned to Arizona once again to practice law.
  • He died at the age of 98 under hospice care in San Diego, California, at the time he was the oldest living former governor.

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