{{Short description|American politician (1957–2008)}}

{{Infobox officeholder | image = File:Guerrero Lena3.jpg | image_size = | name = Lena Guerrero | caption = | state_house2 = Texas | district2 = 51st | term_start2 = January 8, 1985 | term_end2 = January 4, 1991 | preceded2 = Gonzalo Barrientos | succeeded2 = Glen Maxey | office = Railroad Commissioner of Texas | term_start = January 23, 1991 | term_end = October 1, 1992<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rrc.texas.gov/about-us/commissioners/commissioner-list/|title=Railroad Commissioners Past through Present|access-date=April 3, 2024|website=www.rrc.texas.gov}}</ref> | governor = Ann Richards | preceded = John Sharp | succeeded = Jim Wallace | birth_date = {{birth date|1957|11|27}} | birth_place = Mission, Texas, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2008|4|24|1957|11|27}} | death_place = Austin, Texas, U.S. | resting_place = Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas | spouse = {{marriage|Lionel "Leo" Aguirre|1983}} | children = 1 | occupation = Lobbyist | party = Democratic | footnotes = }}

'''Lena Guerrero Aguirre''' (November 27, 1957 – April 24, 2008) was a Texan political figure who served in the Texas House of Representatives. She was later appointed as the first woman and first non-white member of the Texas Railroad Commission,<ref>http://www.hermana.org/organization/lasprim.htm MANA History</ref> which regulates the oil and natural gas industry. Her political career ended in 1992 over a falsified résumé scandal.

In the 1960s, Guerrero and her siblings were migrant workers.<ref name="texasmonthly.com">[http://www.texasmonthly.com/2001-09-01/politics3.php Lena Guerrero: Texas Monthly September 2001<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> She attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she was president of the Young Democrats of Texas.<ref name=austin>[http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/04/25/0425guerreroobit.html Lena Guerrero, once a rising star in Texas politics, dies after battling cancer<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430135849/http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/04/25//0425guerreroobit.html |date=2008-04-30 }}</ref><ref name="texasmonthly.com"/> She was elected to the Texas House, and appointed to a vacant seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, but when she ran for reelection to the seat it was discovered that she had falsely claimed to have graduated from UT.<ref name=austin/><ref>{{cite news |title=Lie by Texas Politician Puts Twist in Campaign (Published 1992) |work=The New York Times |date=12 October 1992 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230722185041/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/12/us/lie-by-texas-politician-puts-twist-in-campaign.html?pagewanted=all |archive-date=2023-07-22 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/12/us/lie-by-texas-politician-puts-twist-in-campaign.html?pagewanted=all |last1=Suro |first1=Roberto }}</ref>

She died of brain cancer at the age of fifty.<ref name=austin/>

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