Rubén Hinojosa Rubén Hinojosa Rubén Eloy Hinojosa (born August 20, 1940) is a former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1997 to 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district stretches from Seguin (east of San Antonio), to McAllen on the Mexican border. Much of the region is rural although Hidalgo County is part of the third-fastest-growing metropolitan statistical area in the country. Hinojosa served on the House Financial Services and Education committees. Hinojosa was born in Edcouch, Texas. The eighth of eleven children, Hinojosa was reared in Hidalgo County, which borders on Mexico, and earned two business degrees,
Felipe Jesus Consalvos Creator, Healer, & Man: The Artwork of Felipe Jesus Consalvos." Catalogue essay, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, 2005. Greaves, Brendan. "Dream the Rest: On the Mystery and Vernacular Modernism of Felipe Jesus Consalvos, Cubamerican "Cigarmaker, Creator, Healer, & Man"," 2008. Smith, Roberta. "Red, White and Blue Americana Atop a Cultural Rainbow," "New York Times", January 20, 2006, p. E33. Felipe Jesus Consalvos Felipe Jesus Consalvos (1891 – c. 1960) was a Cuban-American cigar roller and artist, known for his posthumously-discovered body of art work based on the vernacular tradition of cigar band collage. Felipe Jesus Consalvos was born near Havana, Cuba in 1891