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Texas politician

Leticia Rosa Magdalena Aguilar Van de Putte^[1][2] (née San Miguel; born December 6, 1954)^[3] is an American politician from San Antonio, Texas.

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She represented the 26th District in the Texas Senate from 1999–2015. From 1991 to 1999, Van de Putte was a member of the Texas House of Representatives. In 2014, she was the Democraticnominee for lieutenant governor but lost the general election, 58-39 percent, to her Republican senatorial colleague, Dan Patrick of Houston.^[4] Following that defeat, she then resigned from the Texas Senate to run for mayor of San Antonio, which she narrowly lost to Ivy Taylor, 52-48 percent.

Early life

Van de Putte was born Leticia San Miguel in Tacoma, Washington, the oldest of five children of Daniel and Isabel San Miguel, a sixth-generation Tejano family. Her father was stationed at Fort Lewis when she was born.^[5] The family returned to San Antonio, where