Dennis Chávez

Dionisio "Dennis" Chávez was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1935, and in the United States Senate from 1935 to 1962. He was the first Hispanic to be elected to a full term in the US Senate and the first US Senator to be born in New Mexico, which was still a US territory at the time of his birth.

8 April 1888

Born on the same birth day (8 April): Anouk (singer) • Bernt Haas • Clarence Hudson White • Donita Sparks • Gerd Andres • Grigori Kuzmin • Iskandar of Johor • Iveta Bartošová • Joachim Büchner • Mel Schacher • Melvin Calvin • Michael Jones (rugby union) • Roman Dragoun • Ron Johnson • Sonja Henie • Tine Asmundsen • Tony Banks, Baron Stratford

Born in the same month (April 1888): Dan Ahearn • Florence La Badie • John Crowe Ransom • Michael Heidelberger • Pe Maung Tin • Thomas C. Kinkaid