TALLAHASSEE, Florida — (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has named Sen. Marco Rubio as his choice for secretary of state.
Here are five things to know about the Republican from Florida, now in his third U.S. Senate term:
He is the son of Cuban immigrants
Rubio, 53, was born in Miami and still calls the city his home. His father was a bartender and his mother a hotel maid. In his first Senate campaign, he repeatedly reminded voters of his working class background and “only in America” story as the son of Cuban immigrants who became a U.S. senator.
He is Catholic. But Rubio spent about six years of his childhood in Las Vegas, where he was baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and attended Mormon services. The family moved to the city when Rubio was eight and his parents found jobs in the growing hotel industry.
They returned to Miami when he was 14.
Rubio played …