Robert Garcia

Robert García (born January 9, 1933) was a Democratic United States Representative from New York between 1978 and 1990. García was born in Bronx, N.Y. He attended the public schools and graduated from Haaren High School in the Bronx in 1950. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War with the Third Infantry Division, from 1950 to 1953. From 1953 until 1957 he attended college at City College of New York, Community College of New York and RCA Institute. He worked as a computer engineer from 1957 to 1965. García served in the New York assembly, from 1966 to 1967, the New York senate, from 1967 to 1978. In the senate he was the deputy minority leader from 1975 to 1978. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention...