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Linda Chavez-Thompson
Linda Chavez-Thompson (born August 1, 1944)〔Silverstein, "Working Within Two Cultures," ''Los Angeles Times,'' October 27, 1995.〕〔Franklin, "Labor's Message Heard in Clear New Voice," ''Chicago Tribune,'' October 30, 1995.〕 is a second-generation Mexican American〔Karsko, "Success of Unions, Middle Class Are Linked, Labor Advocate Says," ''Columbus Dispatch,'' July 22, 1995.〕 and union leader. She was elected the executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO in 1995 and served until September 21, 2007. She is also a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee〔Kornblut, "Democrats Elect Dean As Committee Chairman," ''New York Times,'' February 13, 2005.〕 and a member of the board of trustees of United Way of America. She was the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Texas in the 2010 election.
==Early life==
Chavez-Thompson's place of birth is unclear. Although she has been described by some sources as an "illegal immigrant",〔Kilborn, "Delegates of Labor Gather, Battered but Now Buoyant," ''New York Times,'' October 22, 1995; "Labor Federation Convenes With a Sense of Renewal," ''Dallas Morning News,'' October 22, 1995; Minzesheimer, "New Union Chief Vows Turnaround," ''USA Today,'' October 26, 1995.〕 other references contend that she was born in Lorenzo in Crosby County in West Texas and reared in Lubbock.〔Greenhouse, "Singing Labor's Song to Immigrants, Legal or Not," ''New York Times,'' February 17, 2001.〕〔Jones, "Closing the Gap," ''Providence Journal-Bulletin,'' June 21, 1996.〕 Her father was a sharecropper, and she was one of seven children. At the age of 10, she took a job hoeing cotton in the fields in Lorenzo for the summer. It was a job she worked at for the next nine years. She also picked cotton for several years. She dropped out of high school at age 16 to help support her family, and married at the age of 20. She gave birth to a daughter in 1964 and a son in 1976. She divorced her first husband in 1984 and the next year married Robert Thompson, the long-time president of the Amalgamated Transit Local 694 in San Antonio. He died in 1993 of complications of lung cancer.〔〔〔〔Kunde, "New Voices Trying to Revitalize Labor," ''Dallas Morning News,'' September 3, 1995.〕〔Lewis, "Labor's Quiet Crusader," ''Boston Globe,'' September 3, 1995; Stouffer, "Union Leader Calls Congress Workers' Enemy," ''Buffalo News,'' September 21, 1995; Franklin, "Sweeney Captures AFL-CIO's Top Job," ''Chicago Tribune,'' October 26, 1995.〕〔Martin, "Chavez-Thompson Vows to Help Boot Republicans," ''San Antonio Express-News,'' May 6, 1996.〕
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