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<<>> Marco Antonio Rubio (born May 28, 1971) is an American politician and attorney, and the junior United States Senator from Florida. Rubio previously served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.

Rubio is a Cuban American from Miami, with degrees from the University of Florida and the University of Miami School of Law. In the late 1990s, he served as a City Commissioner for West Miami and was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2000, representing the 111th House district.

Later in 2000, Rubio was promoted to be one of two majority whips, and in 2002, he was appointed House Majority Leader by Speaker Johnnie Byrd. Subsequently, he was elected Speaker of the Florida House, serving as Speaker for two years beginning in November 2006. Upon leaving the Florida legislature in 2008 due to term limits, Rubio started a new law firm, and also began teaching at Florida International University, where he continues as an adjunct professor.

Rubio successfully ran for United States Senate in 2010. In the U.S. Senate, he chairs the Commerce Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard, as well as the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights and Global Women's Issues. He is one of three Latino Americans serving in the Senate.

In April 2015, Rubio announced that he would forgo seeking reelection to the Senate to run for President. He suspended his campaign for President on March 15, 2016, after losing the Republican primary in his home state of Florida to Donald Trump. On June 22, 2016, he reversed his decision not to seek reelection to the Senate and announced a campaign for reelection.

Early life, education, and entry into politics
Marco Antonio Rubio was born in Miami, Florida, the second son and third child of Mario Rubio Reina and Oriales (née Garcia) Rubio. His parents were Cubans who immigrated to the United States in 1956, prior to the rise of Fidel Castro in January 1959. His mother made at least four trips back after Castro’s victory, including for a month in 1961. Neither of his parents was a U.S. citizen at the time of Rubio's birth, but his parents applied for U.S. citizenship and were naturalized in 1975.

Rubio's maternal grandfather, Pedro Victor Garcia, initially immigrated legally to the U.S. in 1956, but returned to Cuba to find work in 1959. When he returned to the U.S. in 1962 without a visa, he was detained as an undocumented immigrant, and an immigration judge ordered him deported. The immigration officials had a "change of heart" later the same day, the deportation order was not enforced, and Garcia was given a legal status ("parolee") that allowed him to stay in the U.S. Rubio's grandfather remained in the US and re-applied for permanent resident status in 1966, following passage of the Cuban Adjustment Act, at which point his residency was approved. In March 2016, the New York Times reported that Garcia was put in a "gray area" of the law that meant he could remain in the U.S. from 1962 to 1966.

His Natural Life was a novel by Marcus Clarke serialised in the Australian Journal from March 1870 to June 1872. It was later heavily modified and published separately in book format.

Plot
The story opens in London, 1827, with Maurice Frere, a young lieutenant of three and twenty on the eve of being gazetted to Van Diemen's Land, celebrating the occasion with a crowd of choice friends at the Bell Inn, High Holborn. He is the nephew of the millionaire shipbuilder Sir Richard Devine, and his heir presumptive as the old man has disinherited his son, a dissipate scapegrace who has been lost sight of on the continent for some years. Sir Richard has recently become dissatisfied with his nephew's conduct also, and obliged him to emigrate.

Halfway through the night, Frere unexpectedly receives news of his uncle's illness and immediately hastens to his country seat. There he arrives just in time to speak to his uncle, who has sent for his lawyer, Mr Quade of Perkins and Quade, to alter his will. He dies immediately after with this undone. Consequently when the will is read it is found that his eldest son, Richard, was never legally disinherited and the whole fortune goes to him; if he cannot be found, to Frank, the next son, but Maurice is left with nothing. As he has already purchased his commission to Australia, he cannot now exchange it and is forced to go to the colony.

On the same night two other travellers, from Amsterdam, had slept at the Bell, an elderly German, Hans, who carried with him a black box apparently of great value to him, and a younger man, who turns out to be young Richard Devine. They dine with the Landlord, "Plain" Joe Mogford, and his disreputable brother Jerry "the Lurker", who has come to cadge money from his well-to-do brother. They have obviously quarrelled on the road, and Hans ascends to his chamber in dudgeon, but Richard visits him before retiring himself and effects a reconciliation. Hans' window is stiff and lockless; Richard cuts his hand severely getting it down, bloodies his vesture and binds it up with Hans' neckercloth. He misses his knife, which he says he has left downstairs. As he leaves, the evil yellow face of the Lurker looks in at the window.

Richard leaves the Bell early in the morning and makes his way into London. On the road his foreign appearance excites a deal of interest from the rabble in the streets, and frustrated he enters a barber's shop and has his beard removed. Almost immediately he is arrested - the body of Hans has been found in the Inn and Plain Joe, suspecting Richard, has come after him. The circumstantial evidence against him is strong - the murder was done with his own knife, and the victim's bloody neckercloth is found upon him, and he is carrying a parcel of fine jewels. He gives the name Rufus Dawes at Bow Street.

John Rex eventually eludes his wife and arrives in England. He has an intimate knowledge of the Devine family from the time when Old Sir Richard employed him to track his son, and easily fools the unsuspicious Francis and Lucy. Hardly desirous of having any legal enquiry into his claim, he assured Francis that he has no desire of disinheriting him, and will happily live quietly with them. Francis accedes, assuring his 'brother' that he only holds the estate in trust for him. For a time all is well, but as Rex relaxes he becomes less cautious and begins to show his true character. Francis has no suspicion of the fraud; Richard was always a dissolute scapegrace, but he is desirous of getting him aboard. Rex goes to the continent, where he adamantly refuses to come to a settlement with the family, instead wasting vast sums in his profligacy. Francis, worried ill by his inability to provide for his children Arthur and Adelaide without a settlement, dies and Rex returning takes over the whole estate. Arthur, disgusted, refuses his offer of charity and leaves college to go to the Victorian goldfields. Lucy, with her scarce means, takes Addy and goes into seclusion.

As Adelaide approaches an age where she should be brought out in society, and Lucy appeals to Rex to make some settlement on his niece. He refuses, averring that his horse racing and betting have left him deeply in debt. Instead, Lucy purposes to retire to the continent with Addy. For this end she writes to her old German governess, Frau Clara Blinzler, who resides in Amsterdam with her crippled younger sister Dorothea. The two have been living there alone for eight and twenty years, since the death of their father and the mysterious disappearance of Dorothea's husband, Richard Devine. On receipt of Lucy's letter, bringing news of Richard's supposed return, Dorothea determines to cross the channel and confront him.

The Australian Journal, also entitled The Australian Journal : A Weekly Record of Literature, Science and the Arts, was a journal published from 1865 until 1957.

First edition March 1865 Melbourne (Clarson, Massina and co.) Also distributed in Sydney (Gibbs, Shallard and co.) Changed hands 1955, Southdown Press, still Melbourne, 'til it terminated in 1962