Luis Fortuño, 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 serve, and serves as process observer, in U.S. Congress committees. List of former Commisioners Categories: Executive Branch of the Government... Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico

Luis Fortuño (born October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining, as the final day of October. Events 475 - Romulus Augustus was proclaimed Roman Emperor. 1517 - Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg... October 31, 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). Events January-February January - State of emergency is lifted in Kenya - Mau Mau Rebellion is officially over January 1 - Independence of Cameroon January 9 - Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt January 14 - Ralph Chubb, the... 1960) is a A lawyer or attorney at law is a person licensed by the state to advise clients in legal matters and represent them in courts of law (and in other forms of dispute resolution). Most countries today require professional law advisors in their judicial systems. Lawyers have many names in different... lawyer and A politician is an individual involved in politics, sometimes this may include political scientists. In other settings, a politician is a type of political figure who participates in a government. In Western democracies, the term is generally restricted to those either holding or seeking elected office for themselves, rather than... politician from The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: When Europeans first arrived, the island of Puerto Rico was inhabited by a group of Arawak Indians known as Taínos. The Taínos called the island Borinquén. The first European contact was made by Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage to the... Puerto Rico affiliated with the The New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico —or Partido Nuevo Progresista de Puerto Rico (PNP) in Spanish— is a political party that campaigns for Puerto Rico to become a state of the United States. Those who follow the PNP ideology are called penepés or estadistas (statehooders in... New Progressive Party and the The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for leader – and it currently has majorities in the Senate and the House, as well as in governorships. In the modern political era, the GOP is the more conservative of the two major parties. Organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on February 28, 1854... United States Republican Party. He is the current 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 serve, and serves as process observer, in U.S. Congress committees. List of former Commisioners Categories: Executive Branch of the Government... Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the The Congress of the United States is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States of America. It is established by Article One of the Constitution of the United States, which also deliniates its structure and powers. Congress is a bicameral legislature, consisting of the House of... United States Congress.

Education

Fortuño graduated from the The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (known as the SFS for short) is a school within Georgetown University in Washington, DC in the United States. Founded in 1919 - six years before the U.S. Foreign Service - it was named after its first dean, Edmund A. Walsh, S.J... Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and later received a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1985. During this period, Fortuño was a close collaborator to then Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico Baltasar Corrada del Río {born April 12, 1935) is a former politician from Puerto Rico. He held various high political offices in the island, including Resident Commissioner (1977-1985), Mayor of the capital city of San Juan (1985-1989), Secretary of State (1993-1995) and Associate Justice to... Baltasar Corrada del Río. After graduation, he began working with the New Progressive Party in Puerto Rico.

Political career

Fortuño is a close collaborator of former Seal of the Governor of Puerto Rico The Governor of Puerto Rico is the Head of Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Since 1948, the Governor is elected by the people of Puerto Rico. Prior to that date, the Governor of Puerto Rico was appointed by either the King... Governor of Puerto Rico Pedro Rosselló. He was a senior advisor for his campaigns of 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events January January - The Internet Society is formed. January 1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General George H. W. Bush becomes the first... 1992 and 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the . April 28 - Martin Bryant kills 35 people as part of the Port Arthur Massacre, at the Port Arthur tourist site, Tasmania, Australia. April 29 - Official opening of Rent (musical) on Broadway. May May 11... 1996. During Rosselló's tenure as governor, Fortuño held various postions in the govenor's cabinet, among them Secretary of Economic Development.

Fortuño decided to seek his party's nomination for the post of Resident Commissioner in the primaries of 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints had been found in Italy March 15 - Hu Jintao becomes president of the Peoples Republic of China, replacing Jiang Zemin. March 16 Iraq disarmament crisis... 2003. He was able to defeat veteran politicians during the primaries, among them former governor and former resident commisioner Carlos Antonio Romero Barceló (born September 4, 1932) was Puerto Ricos fifth democratically elected Governor, the second governor to be elected from the New Progressive Party (PNP) and also Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001. Romero Barceló is the grandson of Antonio R. Barcel... Carlos Romero Barceló.

He actively campaigned alongside Pedro Rosselló, who was seeking to return to the post of governor. He picked up momentum when he received the endorsement of Edward Gillespie (born 1962) has been chairman of the Republican National Committee since July, 2003. He is originally from New Jersey and is a graduate of Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. While at CUA he began his career on Capitol Hill as a Senate parking lot attendant. In... Ed Gillespie, head of the The Republican National Committee (RNC) of the United States provides national leadership for the United States Republican Party. It is responsible for developing and promoting the Republican political platform, as well as coordinating fundraising and election strategy. It is also responsible for the Republican National Convention. There are similar committees... Republican National Committee. On the elections of 2004, Fortuño was victorious over his main rival candidate Roberto Prats. However, his running-mate Rosselló lost his bid for the governor's seat by a mere 4,000 votes. This means that Fortuño will be Resident Commissioner under Aníbal Acevedo Vilá (born February 13, 1962) is the eighth and current democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. Acevedo has served in many political posts in Puerto Rico, including being member of the House of Representatives ( 1993– 2001) and Resident Commissioner (2001– 2005). Acevedo won... Aníbal Acevedo Vilá of the Popular Democratic Party. This will be the first time in This article needs cleanup. Please edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. Located at the north east of the Caribbean Sea, Puerto Rico was key to the Spanish Empire since the early years of conquest and colonization of the New World. The smallest of the... Puerto Rican history that the governor of Puerto Rico and the resident commissioner are not from the same political party.

External links

• luisfortuno.net (http://www.luisfortuno.net) - official campaign website, in Spanish or Castilian is an Iberian Romance language, and the third or fourth most spoken language in the world. It is spoken as a first language by about 352 million people, or by 417 million including non-native speakers (according to 1999 estimates). The majority of Spanish speakers live in... Spanish.