Gilbert V. "Gil" Montanez
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BiographyAppointed Tempe postmaster in 1966.Tempe City Councilman, 1964-1967.
Growing up in a family of 12 children, he and all the members of his family picked cotton. He and his sisters attended Tempe Grammar School (Tenth Street School), rather than the Eighth Street School, which was for Mexican American children. In 1956, he and Luis Mejias recruited Tempe members for the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), which offered classes in citizenship and English. He was one of the charter members that formed Tempe LULAC Council No. 361 in 1960. In 1964, he campaigned to represent the Mexicans of Tempe and was the first Mexican American elected to the Tempe City Council since Samuel Brown (1903).
Member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Director of the Tempe Boys Club, Guadalupe Organization, Inc., and the Phoenix Urban League.
BIO-Montanez
AR, 9 Dec 1983
TDN, 2 June 1966
TH-311
Solliday, Journey to Rio Salado, p. 119
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