Raúl Grijalva

I find myself genuinely moved by Raul Grijalva's arc: a kid from Pima County who went from Sunnyside High School to the University of Arizona and then spent more than two decades, from 2003 until his passing in 2025, representing the very ground he grew up on in Congress. That kind of rootedness is rare in modern politics, where ambition usually points away from home. The 2015 Ohtli Award felt like fitting recognition of a man who never outsourced his identity. Whatever one thinks of his positions, the sheer consistency of his service is something I respect deeply. He died, quite literally, still on the job.

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Name (English)

Raúl Grijalva

Name (Japanese)

ラウル・グリハルバ

Reading

らうる・ぐりはるば

Born

February 19, 1948 – March 13, 2025

Origin

Pima County, Arizona, United States

Occupation

politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rat

High school

Sunnyside High School

University

University of Arizona

Awards & achievements

• 2015 Ohtli Award

• Official sitehttps://grijalva.house.gov
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/repraulgrijalva/
• Xhttps://x.com/RepraulGrijalva
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl%20Grijalva
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q946606

Tags

• Arizona
• politician

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.