Career
In the mid-1990s, Republicans held all of the county"s legislative and congressional seats, showing it to be one of the most Republican large populous counties in the country. Fuentes moved to Orange County in 1962 where he worked in Richard Nixon"s gubernatorial campaign. He traced his lineage back six generations to Mexican immigrants.
Fuentes died on May 18, 2012, in Lake Forest, California from complications from liver cancer.
