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): Ahmet Piriştina • Barbara of Hesse • Dalton Grant • Edward Mulhare • Félix Hernández • Julius Seljamaa • Jürgen Moltmann • Kenny Benjamin • Mark Blundell • Pancha Carrasco • Renzo De Felice • Tim Thomerson • Tony Barton (footballer) • Viktor Arvidsson • Viktória Forster • Yip Harburg

Born in the same month (April 1888): Billy Minter • Cecil Kimber • Dan Ahearn • Gerhard Ritter • Hans Richter (artist) • John Crowe Ransom • Neville Cardus • Pe Maung Tin • Thomas C. Kinkaid • Tris Speaker • Walter Tull