Editing Hialeah, Florida (section)

==Government and infrastructure==
The [[University of Florida College of Dentistry]] operates the Hialeah Dental Clinic. It opened in 1997 to serve Hispanic populations in South Florida.<ref>"[http://www.dental.ufl.edu/Offices/News/publications/GDTNewsletter_Fall07.pdf Hialeah Dental Clinic Turns 10]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}." ''Gator Dentist Today''. [[University of Florida College of Dentistry]]. Northern hemisphere Fall of 2007. p. 4. Retrieved on April 15, 2012.</ref>

===Politics===
Hialeah is located within [[Florida's 26th congressional district]]. It is currently represented in the House of Representatives by [[Mario Díaz-Balart]], a [[Republican (United States)|Republican]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.gov/representatives/|title=Directory of Representatives|publisher=The United States House of Representatives|access-date=August 28, 2013|archive-date=August 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130830114437/http://www.house.gov/representatives/|url-status=live}}</ref> A 2005 study by the nonpartisan Bay Area Center for Voting Research (BACVR) ranked Hialeah, Florida as the fourth most conservative city in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://govpro.com/content/gov_imp_31439/ |title=Study Ranks America's Most Liberal and Conservative Cities |publisher=Govpro.com |date=August 16, 2005 |access-date=August 4, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722203607/http://govpro.com/content/gov_imp_31439/ |archive-date=July 22, 2012 }}</ref> The current mayor of Hialeah is [[Esteban Bovo]].

As of 2020, Hialeah leaned towards Republican politics.<ref name=SmileyManipulated>{{cite web|last=Smiley|first=David|url=https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/elections/2020/09/21/were-not-gonna-be-manipulated-cracks-form-in-trumps-cuban-american-base/|title=Why some Cuban-Americans in Florida are supporting Biden over Trump|newspaper=[[Tampa Bay Times]]|date=2020-09-21|access-date=2020-10-20}}</ref> In the [[2016 United States presidential election in Florida]] each of the two major candidates received about half of the vote. For the [[2020 United States presidential election in Florida]], about two thirds<!--66%--> of residents of Hialeah voted for Trump.<ref name=DaughtertyetalHispanics>{{cite web|last1=Daugherty|first1=Alex|last2=Smiley|first2=David|last3=Padró Ocasio|first3=Bianca|last4=Wieder|first4=Ben|url=https://miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article246978452.html|title=How non-Cuban Hispanics in Miami helped deliver Florida for Donald Trump |newspaper=[[Miami Herald]]|date=2020-11-06|access-date=2020-11-08}}</ref> In [[2024 United States presidential election in Florida|2024]], that number increased as 76% of Hialeah voters voted for Trump.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DRA 2020 |url=https://davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::3a6791b9-a186-4691-a95c-5d51dbb3be1c |access-date=2024-12-08 |website=Daves Redistricting |archive-date=February 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230228051204/https://davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::3a6791b9-a186-4691-a95c-5d51dbb3be1c |url-status=live }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+ List of mayors of Hialeah, Florida
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! Dates !! Mayor !! Notes
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| 1925–1930 || John Peter Grethen || Died in office<ref>{{cite news |title=John Grethen, Hialeah Mayor, Dies Suddenly |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48262500/obituary-for-john-p-grethen-aged-40/ |work=Miami Herald |date=30 June 1930 |pages=1 |quote=Mr. Grethen had been mayor of Hialeah since its incorporation in 1925, being re-elected to that office last September. |access-date=23 March 2022}}</ref>
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| 1930–1933 || Robert W. Marshall || Acting Mayor due to vacancy<ref>{{cite book |last1=DeLoach |first1=Daniel F. |title=Hialeah: What's in a Name |date=2006 |publisher=City of Hialeah |location=Hialeah, FL |pages=18 |quote=Robert W. Marshall, President of the Council became the acting Mayor due to a vacancy in the office.}}</ref>
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| 1933–1935 || Grover Cleveland (Doc) Sparks || Namesake of Sparks Park<ref>{{cite web |title=Sparks Park |url=https://www.hialeahfl.gov/737/Sparks-Park |website=HialeahFL.gov |publisher=City of Hialeah |access-date=4 April 2022 |quote=Sparks Park was named after G.C. Sparks who served as mayor of the City of Hialeah from 1933-1935.}}</ref>
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| 1935–1937 || Dr. Leon H. O'Quinn || <ref>{{cite journal |title=Medical News |journal=JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association |date=7 December 1935 |volume=105 |issue=23 |page=1920 |doi=10.1001/jama.1935.02760490104017 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_jama_1935-12-07_105_23/page/1920/mode/1up |access-date=23 March 2022 |quote=Dr. Leon H. O’Quinn has been elected mayor of Hialeah.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title= Ernest Graham and the Hialeah Charter Fight of 1937 |first= Peter D. |last= Klingman |journal= Tequesta |volume= 34 |issn= 0363-3705 |publisher= Historical Association of Southern Florida |url= http://digitalcollections.fiu.edu/tequesta/files/1974/74_1_03.pdf |via= Florida International University |year= 1974 |access-date= August 25, 2017 |archive-date= December 26, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141226074007/http://digitalcollections.fiu.edu/tequesta/files/1974/74_1_03.pdf |url-status= dead }} {{free access}}</ref>
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| 1937–1943 || Carl Ault || 3 consecutive terms,<ref>{{cite book |last1=DeLoach |first1=Daniel F. |title=Hialeah: What's in a Name |date=2006 |publisher=City of Hialeah |location=Hialeah, FL |pages=67–69}}</ref> twice unopposed<ref>{{cite web |title=Elections Overview |url=http://www.hialeahfl.gov/169/Overview |website=HialeahFL.gov |publisher=City of Hialeah |access-date=23 March 2022 |quote=Carl Ault ran unopposed twice in the 1937 and 1941 elections.}}</ref>
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| 1943–1945 || Henry Milander || Namesake of Milander Park<ref>{{cite web |title=Milander Park |url=https://www.hialeahfl.gov/740/Milander-Park |website=Hialeah |publisher=City |access-date=23 March 2022 |quote=Milander Park was named after Henry Milander who served as Mayor of the City of Hialeah from 1941-1945 and again from 1947-1974.}}</ref>
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| 1945–1947 || Carl Ault || Returned for one term
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| 1947–1975 || Henry Milander || Re-elected 8 times;<ref>{{cite journal |title=Dade County: Unbossed, Erratically Led |first=Thomas J. |last=Wood |journal=[[Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science]] |volume= 353 |year= 1964 |pages=64–71 |quote=In the face of contrary advice from the two Miami newspapers, his constituents have returned him to office eight times, usually with a complaisant council majority, and have rejected the establishment of a council-manager system. |doi=10.1177/000271626435300107|s2cid=145428872 }}</ref> died in office<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bennett |first1=Dale G. |title=Letter to Rep. Herman Badillo |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1974-pt13/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1974-pt13-4-3.pdf#page=29 |website=Congressional Record, June 3, 1974 |access-date=23 March 2022 |page=17394 |language=en |date=28 May 1974 |quote=I am taking the liberty of answering your letter to the late Henry Milander as the new Mayor of Hialeah.}}</ref><ref name=Graveyard>{{cite web |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/hialeah.html |title=Mayors of Hialeah, Florida |editor-first=Lawrence |editor-last=Kestenbaum |editor-link=Lawrence Kestenbaum |work=[[Political Graveyard]] |access-date=April 26, 2017 |archive-date=July 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715103353/http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/hialeah.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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| 1975–1981 || Dale G. Bennett || <ref>{{cite book |last1=DeLoach |first1=Daniel F. |title=Hialeah: What's in a Name |date=2006 |publisher=City of Hialeah |location=Hialeah, FL |pages=85–87}}</ref>
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| 1981–1991 || [[Raúl L. Martínez]] || Convicted of extortion and racketeering<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rohter |first1=Larry |title=Where Politics Is Down and Dirty |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/01/us/hialeah-journal-where-politics-is-down-and-dirty.html |access-date=4 April 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1 November 1991 |page=14 |quote=Mayor Raul Martinez, was convicted of extortion and racketeering in March after a jury found he had accepted $1 million in cash and property from land developers. |archive-date=November 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130145943/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/01/us/hialeah-journal-where-politics-is-down-and-dirty.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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| 1991–1993 || Julio J. Martinez || Acting mayor<ref>{{cite book |last1=DeLoach |first1=Daniel F. |title=Hialeah: What's in a Name |date=2006 |publisher=City of Hialeah |location=Hialeah, FL |pages=93}}</ref>
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| 1993–2005 || [[Raúl L. Martínez]] || 
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| 2005–2011 || [[Julio Robaina]] || <ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061220094650/http://www.hialeahfl.gov/media/media-room/biography/mayor/mayor.htm |url-status=dead |url=http://www.hialeahfl.gov:80/media/media-room/biography/mayor/mayor.htm |archive-date=December 20, 2006 |title=Biography of the Mayor |publisher=City of Hialeah }}</ref>
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| 2011–2021 || [[Carlos Hernández (politician)|Carlos Hernández]] || Acting Mayor after Robaina resigned;<ref>{{cite news |first=Laura |last=Isensee |title=Hialeah has new acting mayor |url=http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/25/2236862/hialeah-has-new-acting-mayor.html |work=[[Miami Herald]] |date=2011-05-26 |accessdate=2011-11-06 |archive-date=April 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413210818/https://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/25/2236862/hialeah-has-new-acting-mayor.html |url-status=live }}</ref> later elected as Mayor
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| 2021–present || [[Esteban Bovo]] || <ref>{{cite web |title=Esteban Bovo Jr. |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Esteban_Bovo_Jr. |website=Ballotpedia |access-date=23 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
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