User:Alsace08/Francisco “Quico” Canseco

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Early Life
Known as “Quico”, Canseco attended high school at Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana and, after graduating from St. Louis University in 1975, he passed the Texas State Bar and began his legal career. For the next 31 years, Quico practiced law throughout the State of Texas. As a practicing attorney, he has been involved in many areas of the legal field including education, banking, real estate, corporate/business law and mediation.

Business and Political Career
A lifelong Republican, Quico is active in state and national Republican activities, and has helped a number of Texas’ Republican candidates with their bid for public office. Quico served as a delegate to the 2004 and the 2006 Texas Republican Conventions in San Antonio, serving the latter Convention as its Credentials Committee chair. He serves on the Board of the Texas Federation of Republican Women; is a member of both the Frontier Leadership Council and the Candidate Resource Committee of the State Party; and, he was appointed to attend the National Hispanic Leadership Conference in Washington DC by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Representative Lamar Smith.

Quico’s banking experience led to his election to the Hondo National Bank Board of Directors in Medina County, where he was appointed Chairman of the Board of the bank’s holding company, Texas Heritage Bancshares. His work with real estate law led his family to elect Quico to serve as President of his family’s real estate development business. His leadership skills have placed him as trustee of the Texas Cultural Trust, associate general counsel for the Texas Republican Party, and chairman of Doctors Hospital of Laredo. He also helped found the Poteet Community Forum in Poteet, Texas. Quico takes special pride in his role in the creation of the Canseco Foundation, a family foundation established to help meet charitable needs throughout the South Texas area.

In 2006 he ran for the 23rd Distric Congressional Seat and was defeated by Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat. In 2008 Canseco lost the GOP nomination to Bexar County Commissioner Lyle Larson.

Canseco said he will again be a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 23rd Congressional District of Texas, a seat currently held by Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, a Democrat. He has notified the National Republican Congressional Committee of his plans.

Personal Life
Born and raised in a family of eight children, Quico has been married to the former Gloria Zúñiga for 28 years. Their three children are Anna, a teacher in Houston; Francisco Jr., a graduate of UTSA and a software developer in San Antonio; and Carlos, currently a senior at Winston Churchill High school. He is the eldest son of the late Dr. and Mrs. Francisco M. Canseco. The families of his seven siblings reside in Bexar, Val Verde, and Galveston counties as well as elsewhere in the country.