New appointee to Hialeah Council makes history as its oldest member

Sixty years after he emigrated from Cuba, Juan Francisco Junco is a member of the Hialeah County.

At 86, he’s the oldest person to ever join the panel, whose other members voted unanimously to add him to their ranks.

The prior record-holder was Henry Milander, who served two stints as Hialeah Mayor between 1943 and 1975, when he died in office at 75.

Junco, a past Hialeah Housing Authority member, replaces ex-Council member Bryan Calvo, a fellow Republican who ran unsuccessfully this year for Miami-Dade Tax Collector.

Coincidentally, 23-year-old Calvo was the youngest person city voters ever elected to the Council.

– Jesse Scheckner, Florida Politics