Marco Rubio

Marco Antonio Rubio (, ROO-bee-oh; born May 28, 1971) is an American politician, attorney, and diplomat serving as the 72nd United States secretary of state since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Florida in the U.S. Senate from 2011 to 2025. Rubio is also the acting national security advisor and acting archivist of the United States. Rubio is a Cuban American from Miami, Florida, and attended law school at the University of Miami. After serving as a city commissioner for West Miami in the 1990s, he was elected in 2000 to represent the 111th district in the Florida House of Representatives. As the Republican majority leader, he was subsequently elected speaker of the Florida House; he served for two years beginning in November 2006. Rubio left the Florida legislature in 2008 due to term limits, and began teaching at Florida International University. In a three-way race, Rubio was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. In April 2015, he launched a presidential bid instead of seeking reelection. He suspended his campaign for the presidency on March 15, 2016, after losing to Donald Trump in the Florida Republican primary. He then ran for reelection to the Senate and won a second term. Despite his criticism of Trump during his presidential campaign, Rubio endorsed him before the 2016 general election and was largely supportive of his presidency. Due to his influence on U.S. policy on Latin America during the first Trump administration, he was described as a "virtual secretary of state for Latin America." He is also considered to have been one of Congress's most hawkish members with regard to China and the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese government sanctioned him twice in 2020 and he is banned from entering China. Rubio became Florida's senior senator in January 2019, following the defeat of former senator Bill Nelson, and was reelected to a third term in 2022, defeating Democratic nominee Val Demings in a landslide victory. Rubio endorsed Trump for president in 2024 days before the Iowa caucuses. In November 2024, President-elect Trump announced his intention to nominate Rubio to be secretary of state in his second administration. Rubio was confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate and took office on January 21, 2025. On May 1, 2025, Trump announced that Rubio would become acting national security advisor, replacing Mike Waltz, while continuing to serve as secretary of state. This dual role was last held by Henry Kissinger from 1973 to 1975 (serving a combined tenure in one or both positions from 1969 to 1977) in the Nixon and Ford administrations. Rubio is also the acting archivist of the United States. He was the last acting USAID administrator before the agency was abolished. He is the first Latino to serve as secretary of state or act as national security advisor, making him the highest-ranking Hispanic American official in U.S. history.

Infobox

President

Donald Trump

Deputy

Christopher Landau

Preceded by

Tania Rozio

Other administration positions

Other administration positions Archivist of the United StatesActingAssumed office February 16, 2025PresidentDonald TrumpPreceded byWilliam J. Bosanko (acting)Administrator of the United States Agency for International DevelopmentActingFebruary 3, 2025 – August 29, 2025PresidentDonald TrumpPreceded byJason Gray (acting)Succeeded byRussell Vought (acting)

Succeeded by

Luciano Suarez

Committee positions

Committee positions Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence CommitteeIn officeFebruary 3, 2021 – January 3, 2025Preceded byMark WarnerSucceeded byMark WarnerChair of the Senate Intelligence CommitteeActingMay 18, 2020 – February 3, 2021Preceded byRichard BurrSucceeded byMark WarnerChair of the Senate Small Business CommitteeIn officeJanuary 3, 2019 – February 3, 2021Preceded byJim RischSucceeded byBen Cardin

Born

Marco Antonio Rubio (1971-05-28) May 28, 1971 (age 54)Miami, Florida, U.S.

Political party

Republican

Spouse

mw- Jeanette Dousdebes (m. 1998)

Children

Education

University of Florida (BA)University of Miami (JD)

Party

Republican

Tables

2010 Florida Senatorial Republican primary results[351] · Electoral history

Total votes

Party

Total votes

Party

1,252,970

Candidate

100.0%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Marco Rubio	1,059,513	84.6%
	Republican	William Kogut	111,584	8.9%
	Republican	William Escoffery	81,873	6.5%
Total votes			1,252,970	100.0%

2010 United States Senate election in Florida[352] · Electoral history

Majority

Party

Majority

Party

1,038,194

Candidate

19.19%

Votes

+18.08%

Turnout

Party

Turnout

Party

5,411,106

Candidate

48.25%

Votes

−22.67%

Total votes

Party

Total votes

Party

5,411,106

Candidate

100.00%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	mw- ±%
	Republican	Marco Rubio	2,645,743	48.89%	−0.54%
	Independent	Charlie Crist	1,607,549	29.71%	+29.71%
	Democratic	Kendrick Meek	1,092,936	20.20%	−28.12%
	Libertarian	Alexander Snitker	24,850	0.46%	N/A
	Independent	Sue Askeland	15,340	0.28%	N/A
	Independent	Rick Tyler	7,394	0.14%	N/A
	Constitution	Bernie DeCastro	4,792	0.09%	N/A
	Independent	Lewis Jerome Armstrong	4,443	0.08%	N/A
	Independent	Bobbie Bean	4,301	0.08%	N/A
	Independent	Bruce Riggs	3,647	0.07%	N/A
	Write-in		108	0.00%	0.00%
Majority			1,038,194	19.19%	+18.08%
Turnout			5,411,106	48.25%	−22.67%
Total votes			5,411,106	100.00%
	Republican hold		Swing

Cumulative results of the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries · Electoral history

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Donald Trump	14,015,993	44.95%
	Republican	Ted Cruz	7,822,100	25.08%
	Republican	John Kasich	4,290,448	13.76%
	Republican	Marco Rubio	3,515,576	11.27%
	Republican	Ben Carson	857,039	2.75%
	Republican	Jeb Bush	286,694	0.92%
	Republican	Rand Paul	66,788	0.21%
	Republican	Mike Huckabee	51,450	0.16%
	Republican	Carly Fiorina	40,666	0.13%
	Republican	Chris Christie	57,637	0.18%
	Republican	Jim Gilmore	18,369	0.06%
	Republican	Rick Santorum	16,627	0.05%

2016 Republican National Convention delegate count · Electoral history

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Donald Trump	1,441	58.3%
	Republican	Ted Cruz	551	22.3%
	Republican	Marco Rubio	173	7.0%
	Republican	John Kasich	161	6.5%
	Republican	Ben Carson	9	0.4%
	Republican	Jeb Bush	4	0.2%
	Republican	Rand Paul	1	<0.01%
	Republican	Mike Huckabee	1	<0.01%
	Republican	Carly Fiorina	1	<0.01%

2016 Florida Senatorial Republican primary results[354] · Electoral history

Total votes

Party

Total votes

Party

1,430,492

Candidate

100.00%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Marco Rubio (Incumbent)	1,029,830	71.99%
	Republican	Carlos Beruff	264,427	18.49%
	Republican	Dwight Young	91,082	6.37%
	Republican	Ernie Rivera	45,153	3.16%
Total votes			1,430,492	100.00%

2016 United States Senate election in Florida[355] · Electoral history

Total votes

Party

Total votes

Party

9,301,820

Candidate

100.0%

Votes

N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Marco Rubio (incumbent)	4,835,191	51.98%	+3.09%
	Democratic	Patrick Murphy	4,122,088	44.31%	+24.11%
	Libertarian	Paul Stanton	196,956	2.12%	+1.66%
	Independent	Bruce Nathan	52,451	0.56%	N/A
	Independent	Tony Khoury	45,820	0.49%	N/A
	Independent	Steven Machat	26,918	0.29%	N/A
	Independent	Basil E. Dalack	22,236	0.24%	N/A
	Write-in		160	0.00%	+0.00%
Total votes			9,301,820	100.0%	N/A
	Republican hold

2022 United States Senate election in Florida[356] · Electoral history

Total votes

Party

Total votes

Party

7,758,126

Candidate

100.0%

Votes

N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Marco Rubio (incumbent)	4,474,847	57.68%	+5.70%
	Democratic	Val Demings	3,201,522	41.27%	−3.04%
	Libertarian	Dennis Misigoy	32,177	0.41%	−1.71%
	Independent	Steven B. Grant	31,816	0.41%	N/A
	Independent	Tuan TQ Nguyen	17,385	0.22%	N/A
	Write-in		267	0.0%	±0.0%
Total votes			7,758,126	100.0%	N/A
	Republican hold

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