Феликс Арройо: Массачусетс саяхатшысы және қоғам қайраткерінің өмірі мен қызметі

American politician

Felix D. Arroyo (born Apr 16, 1948) is the Register of Probate for Suffolk County, Massachusetts effective 2018, and a former at large member of the Boston City Council.

Arroyo was raised in a public housing project in Puerto Rico by his late father, Felicito Arroyo, a World War II veteran and police detective, and his late mother, Elisa Arroyo, a garment seamstress and an ILGWU member. Arroyo completed his undergraduate studies and received a Masters in Secondary Education at the University of Puerto Rico. He was the first member of his family to earn a college degree; he continued with his graduate studies at Harvard University, MIT, and the University of Puerto Rico. he was seated after Francis Roache resigned. Arroyo was re elected in November 2003 and November 2005. He narrowly lost in November 2007, placing fifth in a field of nine candidates—his loss was attributed to low turnout among nonwhite communities, coupled with disproportionately strong turnout in traditionally white, Irish enclaves; overall turnout was only 13.6%.

Arroyo announced he was running for Register of Probate for Suffolk County on February 11, 2014. He won the Democratic nomination with over 53% of the vote on September 9, 2014, and won an uncontested general election in November 2014. He was the first Latino to win a county wide political race in Massachusetts. Arroyo was suspended from his job in February 2017, reportedly due to questions about his performance; he returned to work in October 2017 and has deemed the suspension "unjust". He was re elected in November 2020, garnering a 77.1% majority against two opponents including perennial candidate Althea Garrison.

For more than 25 years, Arroyo has worked to promote peace and justice on a local and global level. Locally, he has sought to curtail domestic violence, gang violence, and hate crimes and was a vocal advocate against the War in Iraq. Working globally for peace, he has traveled to Nicaragua with Witness for Peace and to El Salvador with Sister Cities Program. He has traveled to Haiti and visited Israel as a peace delegate, and went to the Dominican Republic in 1999 to distribute supplies with a hurricane relief delegation.

Two of Arroyo sons have also been elected to the Boston City Council: Felix G. Arroyo served as an at large member from January 2010 to January 2014, and Ricardo Arroyo took office in January 2020 representing District 5.