Rubio later entered the Republican presidential primary race in April 2015, becoming one of the first Hispanic Americans to have aspirations of the highest office. Senate in 2009 and was elected the next year during the midterm elections. The politician announced his intention to run for U.S. He rose through the ranks and became House Speaker in 2005, the first Cuban American to do so. His career in politics started just three years later when he won a run-off election in the fight for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1993 there and later earned his law degree from the University of Miami in 1996.
Rubio went to Tarkio College in Missouri for one year on a football scholarship in 1989 before returning to Florida and later transferring to the University of Florida.
