Lena Guerrero Aguirre (November 27, 1957 – April 24, 2008) was a Texan political figure who served in the Texas House of Representatives. She was later appointed as the first woman and first non-white member of the Texas Railroad Commission,http://www.hermana.org/organization/lasprim.htm MANA History which regulates the oil and natural gas industry. Her political career ended in 1992 over a falsified résumé scandal.
In the 1960s, Guerrero and her siblings were migrant workers.Lena Guerrero: Texas Monthly September 2001 She attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she was president of the Young Democrats of Texas.Lena Guerrero, once a rising star in Texas politics, dies after battling cancer She was elected to the Texas House, and appointed to a vacant seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, but when she ran for reelection to the seat it was discovered that she had falsely claimed to have graduated from UT.
She died of brain cancer at the age of fifty.
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