Reyes, Silvestre, 1944-
Silvestre "Silver" Reyes (born November 10, 1944) is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 16th congressional district from 1997 to 2013.
Born in Canutillo, Texas, he graduated from Canutillo High School before attending the University of Texas at Austin and West Texas College (now the University of Texas at El Paso) before being drafted by the U.S. Army in 1966. For more than a year, he served as a helicopter crew chief in Vietnam, returning to Canutillo after his father died. In 1969 Reyes became a United States Border Patrol agent in Del Rio, Texas. He earned an associate’s degree in criminal justice from El Paso Community College in 1976, and eight years later he became the country’s first Hispanic sector chief in the Border Patrol. Reyes achieved national recognition for clamping down on illegal immigration and related crime near El Paso. In 1995, he ended his 26½-year career in the Border Patrol to run for Congress from Texas's 16th district, winning the Democratic primary in a runoff and easily dispatching his Republican opponent in the general election.
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