Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico

The Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico is a nonvoting representative of the United States House of Representatives elected by Puerto Ricans every 4 years. The representative is allowed to, and serves as process observer, in U.S. Congress committees.

List of former Commisioners

Term(s) served	Name	Puerto Rican Party	United States Party
2005 – present	Luis Fortuño (elected, but not sworn in)	PNP	Republican
2001-2004	Anibal Acevedo Vila	PPD	Democratic
1993 – 2001	Carlos Romero Barcelo	PNP	Democratic
1992 – 1993	Antonio Colorado	PPD	Democratic
1985 – 1992	Jaime Fuster		Democratic
1977 – 1985	Baltasar Corrada del Río	PNP	Republican
1973 – 1977	Jaime Benitez	PPD
1969 – 1973	Jorge Luis Cordova	PNP
1965 – 1969	Santiago Polanco Abreu	PPD
1946 – 1965	Antonio Fernós Isern	PPD
1945 – 1946	Jesús T. Piñero	PPD
1939 – 1945	Bolívar Pagán	Coalitionist
1933 – 1939	Santiago Iglesias Pantín	Coalitionist
1932 – 1933	José Lorenzo Pesquera	Nonpartisan
1917 – 1932	Felix Cordova Davila	Unionist
1911 – 1916	Luis Muñoz Rivera	Unionist
1905 – 1911	Tulio Larrinaga	Unionist
1901 – 1905	Federico Degetau		Republican

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