Mario Mendez (born June 21, 1989) is a former member of the

Rhode Island House of Representatives The Rhode Island House of Representatives is the lower house of the Rhode Island General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, the upper house being the Rhode Island Senate. It is composed of 75 members, elected t ...

from the 13th district. Elected in November 2018, he assumed office on January 1, 2019.

Background

Mendez was raised in

Johnston, Rhode Island Johnston is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 29,568 at the 2020 census. Johnston is the site of the Clemence Irons House (1691), a stone-ender museum, and the only landfill in Rhode Island. Incorpora ...

. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from

Rhode Island College Rhode Island College (RIC) is a public college in Providence, Rhode Island. The college was established in 1854 as the Rhode Island State Normal School, making it the second oldest institution of higher education in Rhode Island after Brown Uni ...

. Mendez was elected to the

in November 2018 and assumed office on January 1, 2019. In his 2020 re-election campaign, Mendez lost the Democratic primary to Ramon Perez, who had previously represented the district from 2017 to 2018.

References

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