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Puerto Rico: Resident Commissioners


Resident Commissioners to U.S. Congress from Puerto Rico, 1900-2017 (May be incomplete!)
Federico Degetau 1901-05 Tulio Larrinaga 1905-11 Luis Muñoz=Rivera 1911-16 Felix Cordova Davila 1917-32 José Lorenzo Pesquera 1932-33 Santiago Iglesias 1933-39 Bolívar Pagán 1939-45 Jesús T. Piñero 1945-46 Antonio Fernós-Isern 1946-65 Santiago Polanco-Abreu 1965-69 Jorge Luis Cordova=Diaz 1969-73 Jaime Benitez 1973-77 Baltasar Corrada-del Rio 1977-85 Jaime B. Fuster 1985-92 Antonio J. Colorado 1992-93 Carlos A. Romero=Barceló 1993-2001 Aníbal Acevedo=Vilá 2001-05 Luis G. Fortuño=Burset 2005- Pedro Pierluisi 2009-17

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1900 Nov 6: Federico Degetau (Partido Republicano Puertorriqueño), elected.
  • 1900 Nov 7: Manuel R. Gatell (Partido Federal), defeated.
  • 1916 Nov 15: Luis Muñoz=Rivera, died in office.
  • 1939 Dec 5: Santiago Iglesias, died in office.
  • 1940 Nov 5: Bolívar Pagán (Coalitionist), elected; Antonio Fernós-Isern (Popular), defeated; Miguel A. Garcia=Mendez (Unification), defeated.
  • 1944 Nov 7: Jesús T. Piñero (Popular Democratic), elected; Manual Font (United Parties), defeated; Augustin Fernández (Autentico), defeated; Francisco Grovas (Proletario), defeated.
  • 1968: Santiago Polanco-Abreu, defeated.
  • 1972: Jaime Benitez (Popular Democratic), elected.
  • 1976: Jaime Benitez, defeated.
  • 1992 Mar 4: Jaime B. Fuster, resigned.
  • 1992 Nov 3: Carlos A. Romero=Barceló (New Progressive), elected; Antonio J. Colorado (Popular Democratic), defeated; Victor Garcia San Inocencio (Puerto Rican Independence), defeated.
  • 1996 Nov 5: Carlos A. Romero=Barceló (New Progressive), elected; Celeste Benitez (Popular Democratic), defeated; Manuel Rodríguez=Orellana (Puerto Rican Independence), defeated.
  • 2000 Nov 7: Aníbal Acevedo=Vilá (Popular Democratic), elected; Carlos A. Romero=Barceló (New Progressive), defeated; Manuel Rodríguez=Orellana (Puerto Rican Independence), defeated.
  • 2008 Nov 4: Pedro Pierluisi, elected.
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