Carlos Cascos, former Cameron County judge, secretary of state, dies.
By Mark Reagan – June 27, 2024
Longtime Brownsville politician Carlos Cascos has died.
Cascos, a certified public accountant, was a Republican in the deep blue Rio Grande Valley who was a political force with the ability to navigate both sides of the aisle.
Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Cascos as secretary of state in 2014. He served in that position until 2017.
Prior to that, Cascos was Cameron County judge from 2006 to 2015. He also served on the Texas Department of Public Safety Commission from 2004 to 2006.
He was also a longtime Cameron County commissioner who served from 1991 to 2002.
Cascos was born on Sept. 18, 1952 in Matamoros and immigrated to the United States with his family as a child. He was raised in Brownsville.
Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño Jr. said he was deeply saddened and truly sorry to learn of Cascos’ passing.
“For decades, Judge Cascos was a fixture in our community, serving selflessly as a volunteer, then as an appointed and elected official,” he said in a statement. “As a certified public accountant, fiscal matters, most memorably being fiscally conservative, were always priorities of Judge Cascos while he served both as a County Commissioner and County Judge.”
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