Later Years
The father of three grown daughters, Ben Fernandez remarried later in life to Jacqueline Coon and they lived in Calabasas, California. Fernandez resided in Las Vegas, Nevada until his death. He continued his work professionally and politically even after his retirement, often traveling throughout the country as a consulting economist. In 2000 he served on the McCain Presidential Finance Committee, his last political involvement before his death.
| Biography portal | |
| Government of the United States portal | |
| Hispanic and Latino Americans portal |
Read more about this topic: Ben Fernandez
Famous quotes containing the word years:
“In former years it was said that at three o’clock in the afternoon all sober persons were rounded up and herded off the grounds, as undesirable. The tradition of insobriety is still carefully preserved.”
—For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognised as love at all.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)