Hispanos Famosos, this page will contain factual information about several famous Hispanic-Americans.
Sonia Sotomayor,the first Hispanic-American appointed to the Supreme Court. She was born in the Bronx area of New York City on June 25, 1945. She was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit when President Barack Obama picked her to replace retired justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009. Of Puerto Rican descent, she was raised in a housing project in The Bronx, New York by her widowed mother. Sotomayor graduated with honors from Princeton (1976) and got her law degree from Harvard (1979), then served as an assistant district attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office from 1979 until 1984. That year she went into in private practice as a litigator, continuing until 1991, when she was nominated to the U.S. District Court by President George H.W. Bush. She was confirmed in 1992. President Bill Clinton nominated her for the U.S. Court of Appeals in June of 1997, but she was not confirmed until October of the following year. Her years on the bench have not been particularly controversial or newsworthy, but Sotomayor is considered left-of-center by Republican critics and faced accusations of racism at her confirmation hearings in July of 2009. She was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice on August 6, 2009, by a Senate vote of 88-11.
Sotomayor has diabetes, an illness she discovered when she was eight years old... Her father died when she was nine... Sotomayor has also served as an adjunct professor at New York University's law school (1998-2007) and a lecturer at Columbia Law School (1999-present)... She ended a major league baseball strike in 1995 when, as a judge, she sided with the players over the owners in a labor dispute.
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Sotomayor has diabetes, an illness she discovered when she was eight years old... Her father died when she was nine... Sotomayor has also served as an adjunct professor at New York University's law school (1998-2007) and a lecturer at Columbia Law School (1999-present)... She ended a major league baseball strike in 1995 when, as a judge, she sided with the players over the owners in a labor dispute.
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Roberto Clemente was a baseball legend, a rangy right fielder who was four times batting champ of the National League (1961, 1964, 1965 and 1967) and twelve times a Gold Glove winner for defensive prowess. He was especially known for his headlong baserunning, cannon arm, and penchant for swinging at nose-high fastballs. Clemente played his entire major league career (1955-72) with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and won two World Series with the team: in 1960 (over the New York Yankees) and in 1971 (over the Baltimore Orioles). He was named the league's most valuable player in 1966. Clemente got his 3000th hit on the last day of the regular season in 1972. That December, when an earthquake devastated parts of Bolivia, Clemente organized relief flights from Puerto Rico and boarded one of the flights himself; he died when the plane crashed into the ocean on 31 December 1972. The next year he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, becoming its first Hispanic member.
Clemente wore uniform #21... He was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame less than three months after his death; the Hall of Fame waived the rule requiring a five-year waiting period after the end of a player's career... His lifetime batting average was .317... He batted a gaudy .414 in the 1971 World Series and was named the series MVP... Major League Baseball gives an annual Roberto Clemente Award to "the player who best exemplifies the game of baseball, sportsmanship, community involvement and the individual's contribution to his team"... His full name has been the source of some confusion. Though he was known as Roberto Clemente, his family name was Roberto Clemente Walker; the Latin tradition is to have the mother's maiden name follow the paternal name. His Hall of Fame plaque originally read Roberto Walker Clemente, but was recast to read Roberto Clemente Walker in 2000... San Juan, Puerto Rico is sometimes listed as his place of birth; Carolina is a nearby suburb.
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Clemente wore uniform #21... He was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame less than three months after his death; the Hall of Fame waived the rule requiring a five-year waiting period after the end of a player's career... His lifetime batting average was .317... He batted a gaudy .414 in the 1971 World Series and was named the series MVP... Major League Baseball gives an annual Roberto Clemente Award to "the player who best exemplifies the game of baseball, sportsmanship, community involvement and the individual's contribution to his team"... His full name has been the source of some confusion. Though he was known as Roberto Clemente, his family name was Roberto Clemente Walker; the Latin tradition is to have the mother's maiden name follow the paternal name. His Hall of Fame plaque originally read Roberto Walker Clemente, but was recast to read Roberto Clemente Walker in 2000... San Juan, Puerto Rico is sometimes listed as his place of birth; Carolina is a nearby suburb.
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