What is Xavier Suárez?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Xavier Suárez |image = Xavier Suarez.jpg |office = [[List of mayors of Miami|Mayor of Miami]] |term_start = November 14, 1997 |term_end = March 12, 1998 |predecessor = [[Joe Carollo]] |successor = [[Joe Carollo]] |term_start1 = November 14, 1985 |term_end1 = November 11, 1993 |predecessor1 = [[Maurice Ferré]] |successor1 = [[Stephen P. Clark]] |birth_name = Xavier Louis Suárez |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|5|21}} |birth_place = [[Villa Clara Province|Las Villas]], [[Cuba]] |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Independent politician|Independent]] |spouse = Rita |children = [[Francis X. Suarez|Francis]] |education = [[Villanova University]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Engineering|BEng]])}}<br>[[Harvard University]] {{small|([[Master of Public Administration|MPA]], [[Juris Doctor|JD]])}} }} '''Xavier Louis Suárez''' (born May 21, 1949) is an American politician. He was the first Cuban-born [[Mayor of Miami]]. He is currently a [[Miami-Dade county government|Miami-Dade county commissioner]]. Suárez was first elected Mayor in 1985. He was re-elected in 1987 and again in 1989 for a four-year term. Suarez was highly popular as Mayor of Miami. He became known in the 1990s for refusing to accept [[Nelson Mandela]] in Miami due to Mandela's support of [[Fidel Castro]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-06-29/news/9002220508_1_blacks-and-cubans-mayor-xavier-suarez-protesters|title=Mandela Snubbed In Miami|publisher=Chicago Tribune|access-date=December 5, 2013|date=June 29, 1990|archive-date=December 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212013653/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-06-29/news/9002220508_1_blacks-and-cubans-mayor-xavier-suarez-protesters|url-status=dead}}</ref> His son, [[Francis X. Suarez]] is Mayor of the City of Miami. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Suarez, Xavier}} [[Category:1948 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Mayors of Miam