El Comisionado Residente de Puerto Rico, es desde 1901, es un
representante sin voto en la Cámara de Representantes de los Estados
Unidos
Es elegido por los puertorriqueños cada cuatro años. Tiene los mismos
poderes que cualquier otro representante de los Estados Unidos excepto
que no puede votar en las sesiones en el hemiciclo de la Cámara. En
cambio, puede integrar y votar en las comisiones de la Cámara.
La Constitución de Puerto Rico de 1952 mantiene el cargo electo de
Comisionado Reside. |
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The Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico is a
non-voting member of the United States House of Representatives
elected by the voters of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico every four
years. The Resident Commissioner is the only member of the House of
Representatives who serves a four-year term.
The Commissioner is allowed to serve on congressional committees,
and functions in every respect as a Representative except being
denied a vote on the final disposition of legislation on the House
floor.
In most other U.S. territories, a similar representative position is
styled Delegate. |
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Anibal Acevedo Vila -
Born in Hato Rey, PR, February
13, 1962; B.A., University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, 1982; J.D.,
University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, 1985; L.L.M., Harvard
University, Cambridge, Mass., 1987; lawyer, private practice; member of
the Puerto Rican house of representatives, 1991-2001; elected as a
Democrat to the One Hundred Seventh Congress to a four-year term (January
3, 2001-January 3, 2005); not a candidate for reelection in 2004, but was
a successful candidate for Governor of Puerto Rico. |
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Jaime Benitez Rexach - Born in
Vieques, PR, October 29, 1908; B.L., Georgetown University, Washington,
DC, 1930; M.L., Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 1931; M.A.,
University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 1938; author; instructor, University
of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, 1931-1942; chancellor, University of
Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, 1942-1966; president, University System of
Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, 1966-1971; member, Constitutional Convention
of Puerto Rico, and chairman, Committee on Bill of Rights, 1951-1952;
member, United States National Commission for UNESCO, 1948-1954; United
States delegate, University Convention, Utrecht, Holland, 1948; National
Convention of UNESCO, Paris, France, 1950, and Havana, Cuba, 1952;
president, National Association of State Universities, 1957-1958; delegate
to Democratic National Convention, 1976; elected as a Popular Democrat to
the United States House of Representatives for a four-year term (January
3, 1973-January 3, 1977); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1976;
professor, Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR,
1980-1986; died on May 30, 2001, in San Juan, PR |
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Antonio J. Colorado Laguna - Born in
New York City, September 8, 1939; attended elementary and high school of
the University of Puerto Rico; B.S., Boston University 1962; J.D.,
University of Puerto Rico School of Law, 1965; LL.M., Harvard University
School of Law, 1966; admitted to the bar in 1966 and commenced the private
practice of law in 1969; legal tax advisor, Economic Development
Administration of Puerto Rico, 1966-1968; executive assistant to the
Economic Development Administrator of Puerto Rico, 1968-1969; member,
Puerto Rico Tax Reform Commission Sub-committee, 1973; lecturer on taxes,
University of Puerto Rico Law School, 1978-1980; Inter-American
University, 1980; appointed Administrator of Economic Development by
Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon of Puerto Rico in 1985; Secretary of
State, Puerto Rico, 1990-1992; appointed as a Democrat to the One Hundred
Second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Resident
Commissioner Jaime B. Fuster (February 21, 1992-January 3, 1993);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1992 to the One Hundred Third
Congress; is a resident of San Juan, PR |
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Jorge Luis Cordova Diaz - Born
in Manatí, PR, April 20, 1907; A.B., Catholic University of America,
Washington, DC, 1928; LL.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1931;
lawyer, private practice; judge, Superior Court of San Juan, 1940-1945;
justice, Supreme court of Puerto Rico, 1945-1946; elected as a New
Progressive to the Ninety-First Congress to a four-year term (November 5,
1968-January 3, 1973); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1972;
business executive; died on September 16, 1994, in San Juan, PR |
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Baltasar Corrada del Rio - Born in Morovis,
PR, April 10, 1935; attended Morovis Public Elementary
School; graduated from Colegio Ponceno de Varones High School, 1952; B.A.,
University of Puerto Rico, 1956; J.D., University of Puerto Rico Law
School, 1959; admitted to the Puerto Rico bar in 1959 and commenced
practice in San Juan; appointed to the Civil Rights Commission of Puerto
Rico, 1969; columnist, El Mundo newspaper; member, Puerto Rico Human
Rights Review, 1971-1972; elected as a New Progressive to the United
States House of Representatives, November 2, 1976, for a four-year term
commencing January 3, 1977; reelected in 1980; did not seek reelection in
1984; elected mayor of San Juan in 1985; elected president, New
Progressive Party, 1986; is a resident of Rio Piedras, PR |
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Felix Cordova Davila - Born in
Vega Baja, PR, on November 20, 1878; attended the public schools at
Manati; came to Washington, DC, and was graduated from National
University Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1903 and commenced
practice in San Juan, PR; judge of the municipal court of Caguas in
1904; judge of the municipal court of Manatí 1904-1908; renominated as
judge, and also as candidate for the Puerto Rico house of representatives;
declined both nominations; district attorney for the district of Aguadilla
in 1908; judge of the district court of Guayama 1908-1910; judge of the
district court of Arecibo in 1910 and 1911; judge of the district court of
San Juan 1911-1917; elected as a Unionist a Resident Commissioner to the
United States on July 16, 1917; reelected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 and
served from August 7, 1917, until his resignation on April 11, 1932,
having been appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of Puerto
Rico, in which capacity he served until his death in Condado, San Juan
County, PR, on December 3, 1938. |
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Federico Degetau Gonzalez - Born in Ponce, PR, December 5, 1862; attended the common schools and
Central College of Ponce; completed an academic course at Barcelona,
Spain, and was graduated from the law department of Central University of
Madrid; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Madrid, Spain;
returned to Puerto Rico; one of the four commissioners sent by Puerto Rico
to ask Spain for autonomy; settled in San Juan and continued the practice
of law; member of the municipal council of San Juan in 1897; mayor of San
Juan in 1898; deputy to the Spanish Cortes of 1898; appointed by General
Henry secretary of the interior of the first American cabinet that was
formed in Puerto Rico in 1899; appointed by General Davis a member of the
insular board of charities; writer and author; first vice president of the
municipal council of San Juan in 1899 and 1900; president of the board of
education of San Juan in 1900 and 1901; elected as a Puerto Rican
Republican a Resident Commissioner to the United States in 1900; reelected
in 1902, and served from March 4, 1901, until March 3, 1905; was not a
candidate for renomination in 1904; resumed the practice of law; died in
Santurce, Puerto Rico, January 20, 1914; interment in the Cemetery of
Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis in San Juan. |
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Antonio Fernos Isern - Born in
San Lorenzo, PR, May 10, 1895; attended elementary and high schools in
Puerto Rico and Pennsylvania State Normal School, Bloomsburg, Pa;
graduated from the University of Maryland, College of Physicians and
Surgeons and School of Medicine, College Park, Md., 1915; physician;
health officer of the city of San Juan, PR, 1919; assistant commissioner
of health Puerto Rico, 1920-1921, 1923-1931; commissioner of health of
Puerto Rico, 1931-1933, 1942-1946; faculty, Public Health School of
Tropical Medicine of Puerto Rico, 1931-1935; unsuccessful candidate as a
Popular Democrat for Resident Commissioner in 1940; director of civilian
defense, metropolitan area of Puerto Rico, 1942; Acting Governor of Puerto
Rico, 1943-1946; appointed as a Popular Democrat to the United States
House of Representatives to fill the vacancy, caused by the resignation of
Resident Commissioner Jesus T. Piñero in the term ending January 3, 1949;
elected to the Eighty-First Congress for a four-year term and reelected to
the three succeeding four-year terms (September 11, 1946-Janu-ary 3,
1965); was not a candidate for reelection to the Eighty-Ninth Congress in
1964; member of the Puerto Rican senate, 1965-1969; died on January 19,
1974, in San Juan, PR; interment in Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery, San Juan, PR |
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Jaime Benito Fuster Berlingeri - Born January 12, 1941, in Guayama, Puerto Rico; attended parochial
schools; B.A., Notre Dame University, 1962; J.D., University of Puerto
Rico Law School, 1965; LL.M., Columbia University Law School, 1966; Law
and Humanities Fellow, Harvard University, 1973-1974; professor of law,
1966-1979, and dean of law, 1974-1978, University of Puerto Rico; United
States Deputy Assistant Attorney General, 1980-1981; president, Catholic
University of Puerto Rico, 1981-1984; elected as a Democrat to the United
States House of Representatives in 1984 for a four-year term; reelected in
1988 and served from January 3, 1985, until his resignation March 4, 1992;
associate justice, Supreme Court of Puerto Rico; is a resident of Candado,
San Juan, P.R |
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Santiago Iglesias Pantin - Born in La Coruña, Spain, February 22, 1872; attended the common
schools; apprenticed as a cabinet maker; moved to Cuba and was secretary
of the Workingmen Trades Circle in Habana 1889-1896; moved to Puerto Rico
and was the founder and editor of three labor papers: Porvenir Social
1898-1900, Union Obrera 1903-1906, Justicia 1914-1925; appointed general
organizer of the American Federation of Labor for the districts of Puerto
Rico and Cuba in 1901; member of the Puerto Rican senate 1917-1933; served
as secretary of the Pan American Federation of Labor 1925-1933; elected as
a Coalitionist a Resident Commissioner to the United States on November 8,
1932; reelected in 1936 for the term ending January 3, 1941, and served
from March 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, DC, December 5, 1939;
interment in Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery, San Juan, PR |
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Tulio Larrinaga Torres Vallejo - Born in
Trujillo Alto, PR, January 15, 1847; attended the Seminario Conciliar of
San Ildefonso at San Juan, PR; studied civil engineering in the
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., and was graduated from the University
of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1871; practiced his profession for some
time in the United States; returned to Puerto Rico in 1872 and was
appointed architect for the city of San Juan; built the first railroad in
Puerto Rico in 1880 and introduced American rolling stock on the island;
was for ten years chief engineer of the provincial works; in 1898 was
appointed assistant secretary of the interior under the autonomic
government and in 1900 was sent by his party as a delegate to Washington;
member of the house of delegates for the district of Arecibo in 1902;
elected as a Unionist Resident Commissioner to the United States in 1904;
reelected in 1906 and 1908 and served from March 4, 1905, until March 3,
1911; delegate from the United States to the Third Pan American Congress
at Rio de Janeiro in 1906; member of the executive council of Puerto Rico
in 1911; resumed the practice of his profession as a civil engineer in San
Juan, PR, and died there on April 28, 1917; interment in the Municipal
Cemetery at Santurce. |
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Bolivar Pagan Lucca - Born in
Guayanilla, PR, May 16, 1897; attended the public schools of Adjuntas,
PR, and Ponce (PR) High School; was graduated from the law department
of the University of Puerto Rico at R'o P'edras in 1921; was admitted to
the bar the same year and commenced practice in San Juan, PR; judge of
Fajardo, PR, in 1922; member of the insular board of elections
1923-1951; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Puerto Rican house
of representatives in 1924; city treasurer of San Juan, PR, 1925-1929; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Puerto Rican Senate in 1928;
associate commissioner of the Public Service Commission of Puerto Rico
1930-1933; member of the Puerto Rican senate 1933-1939 and served as
president pro tempore and majority floor leader; city manager of San Juan,
PR, in 1936 and 1937; member of the American Group of the
Interparliamentary Union; also engaged as writer and editor; appointed by
Governor Leahy as a Coalitionist a Resident Commissioner to the United
States on December 26, 1939, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Santiago Iglesias for the term ending January 3, 1941; elected in 1940 for
the term ending January 3, 1945; was not a candidate for renomination in
1944; again elected a member of the senate of Puerto Rico for terms
1945-1949 and 1949-1953; practiced law in San Juan, PR, until his death
there February 9, 1961; interment in Puerto Rico Memorial Cemetery,
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Jose Lorenzo Pesquera Davila - Born
in Bayamon, PR, August 10, 1882; was graduated from Provincial Institute
of Puerto Rico in 1897; attended the Keystone State Normal School,
Kutztown, Pa., in 1901 and 1902; was graduated from the law department of
West Virginia University at Morgantown in 1904; was admitted to the bar
the same year and commenced practice in Puerto Rico; also engaged in
agricultural pursuits and dairying; member of the Puerto Rico House of
Representatives 1917-1920; director and president of the Agricultural
Association of Puerto Rico; appointed as a Nonpartisan a Resident
Commissioner to the United States to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Felix Cordova Davila and served from April 15, 1932, until
March 3, 1933; was not a candidate for election in 1932; returned to his
law practice and agricultural interests; died in Bayamon, PR, July 25,
1950; interment in Municipal Cemetery. |
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Jesus Toribio Piñero Jimenez - Born in Carolina, PR, April 16, 1897; attended the grade schools,
Colegio Janer (a private school), Baltimore, Md., and the School of
Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; was
graduated from the College of Liberal Arts, University of Puerto Rico at
Rio Piedras, in 1914; engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the
sugarcane and dairy industries 1920-1944; member and president of the
municipal assembly at Carolina, PR, 1928-1932; member of the Puerto Rico
House of Representatives 1940-1944; delegate to the Popular Democratic
Convention at San Juan, PR, in 1940; elected as a Popular Democrat a
Resident Commissioner to the United States and served from January 3,
1945, until his resignation on September 2, 1946, having been appointed
Governor of Puerto Rico, serving until December 1948; died in Loiza, PR, November 19, 1952; interment in Carolina Cemetery, Carolina,
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Santiago Polanco Abreu - Born
in Bayamon, PR, October 30, 1920; attended elementary and high schools
in Isabela, PR; University of Puerto Rico, B.A., 1941, and LL.B., 1943;
was admitted to the bar in 1943 and practiced law in Isabela and San Juan;
legal adviser to the Tax Court of Puerto Rico, 1943-1944; member of the
American Bar and Puerto Rico Bar Associations; one of the founders of the
Institute for Democratic Studies in San Jose, Costa Rica; served in the
House of Representatives, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 1949-1964; member
of the Constitutional Convention of Puerto Rico in 1951-1952; appointed
speaker of the house, 1963-1964; elected as a Popular Democrat to be
Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the United States Congress,
November 3, 1964, for the term ending January 3, 1969; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1968; resumed the practice of law; was a
resident of San Juan, PR, until his death there on January 18, 1988;
interment in Municipal Cemetery, Isabela, PR |
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Luis Muñoz Rivera - Born in
Barranquitas, PR, July 17, 1859; attended the common schools; engaged in
commerce and general business; founded La Democracia, a daily newspaper,
in Ponce, PR, in 1889; was sent to Madrid in 1896 as a special
representative to confer with the Liberal Party of Spain on establishing
home rule in Puerto Rico; one of the founders of the Liberal Party in
Puerto Rico in 1897; appointed secretary of state under the home-rule
government and president of the cabinet in 1897; created and organized the
insular police; resigned in 1898, when American sovereignty was declared,
but his resignation not being accepted, he continued to serve until 1899;
representative of his party to Washington, DC, regarding the
establishment of free-trade relations between the United States and Puerto
Rico; organized the Federal Party in 1900 and on its dissolution in 1902
organized the Unionist Party; founded the Porto Rico Journal in 1900;
published the Porto Rico Herald in New York City in 1901; served in the
Puerto Rico House of Delegates 1906-1910; presided over a special
commission of the house of delegates which was sent to Washington, DC,
in 1909; elected as a Unionist a Resident Commissioner to the United
States in 1910; reelected in 1912 and 1914 and served from March 4, 1911,
until his death in San Juan, PR, November 15, 1916; interment in San
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Carlos Antonio Romero Barcelo - Born in San Juan,
PR, September 4, 1932; graduated from Phillips
Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., 1949; B.A., Yale University, 1953; LL.B.,
University of Puerto Rico School of Law, 1956; practicing attorney, San
Juan; mayor of San Juan, 1969-1976; member, board of directors, U.S.
Conference of Mayors and National League of Cities, 1976; president,
National League of Cities, 1976; president, New Progressive Party,
1974-1985 and 1989-1992; Governor of Puerto Rico, 1977-1985; chairman,
Southern Governors Association, 1980-1981; Puerto Rico senate, 1986-1989;
elected as a New Progressive to the United States House of Representatives
November 3, 1992, for a four year term commencing January 3, 1993;
reelected in 1996; unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One
Hundred Seventh Congress in 2000; is a resident of San Juan, PR |
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