Senate Career
Chavez was the Democratic Party nominee for U.S. Senator from New Mexico in 1934, a very close election he lost, but became the first person of Hispanic descent to be elected to an entire six year term as a U.S. Senator in 1940. (Octaviano Larrazolo was the first Hispanic to be elected to the U.S. Senate, but he was only elected to a remainder of an unexpired term.) Chavez was re-elected in 1940, 1946, 1952, and 1958, and served till his death in 1962.
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