Pedro Hinojosa nomination to federal elections, Hinojosa was elected a general delegate for the Federal Electoral District I of Chihuahua to the II Legislature of 1863. Hinojosa was to move to Mexico City to carry out this office from May 1861 to May 1863, but while traveling through the city of Durango and due to the illness of the governor of that state, General Jose Maria Patoni, the Congress of Durango named Hinojosa governor, a position in which he served from July to August 1861. Hinojosa thereafter fulfilled the office of federal delegate until December 22, 1861, when president Benito Juarez named
Gilberto Hinojosa Gilberto Hinojosa Gilberto Hinojosa is a former Cameron County, Texas, judge and is the current chair of the Texas Democratic Party. He served as the head of Cameron County's government from 1995 to 2006. While living in Washington, DC, Hinojosa worked as a Staff Attorney for the Migrant Legal Action Program, Inc. He later became the Director of the Migrant Division of Colorado Rural Legal Services, Inc., in Denver, Colorado. Upon his return to his native Texas, Hinojosa continued practicing law as the Managing Attorney for the Texas Rural Legal Aid, Inc., located in Brownsville, Texas. Although he briefly partnered