Raymond L. Telles Jr. (September 5, 1915 – March 8, 2013) was the first Mexican-American Mayor of a major American city, El Paso, Texas.

[2] Educated as an accountant, Telles worked at the United States Department of Justice for eight years.

Telles then served in the U.S. Army Air Forces where he became Chief of the Lend-Lease Program for Central and South America.

Telles served as aide to several Latin American and Mexican presidents visiting the United States, and as military aide to Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower when visiting Mexico City.

In 1971, President Richard Nixon appointed him chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for the United States.