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Marco Rubio passed another trailblazing milestone this month, when President-elect Donald Trump tapped him as Secretary of State.
If confirmed, Rubio would be the first Latino in the job and, as fourth in line to the presidency, the highest-ranking Hispanic official in U.S. history.
Trump’s nomination came 18 years after Rubio made history as the first Cuban American Speaker of the Florida House, a job he held until 2008. He won his U.S. Senate seat two years later.
“We see Marco as a torch bearer,” said Steve Bovo, Mayor of Hialeah, the most Cuban-majority city in the U.S.
– Jesse Scheckner, Florida Politics