best medicines for high blood pressure

This is a question addressed to doctors and knowledgeable people in these forums:

What is the best medicine for my hypertension (high blood pressure)?

I am 65, female, has two grown up children, had a heart bypass, have diabetes, have hypertension, had a mastectomy and chemotherapy. I still work in an office and live a sedentary life, don't smoke, drink, and no night life, an observant Evangelical Christian.

For someone with diabetes and coronary disease, ACE inhibitors would hold most favored status because of manifold beneficial effects for such a patient beyond lowering blood pressure.