List of Presidents of the Senate of Puerto Rico
This is a list of people that have held the post of President of the Senate of Puerto Rico. The Senate has elected its own President from more than 103 years since the Jones–Shafroth Act formally established the post on March 2, 1917.[1]
# | Portrait | President | Date it took office | Date it left office | Political party | President pro-tempore |
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Antonio R. Barceló (1868–1938) |
1917 | 1929 | Union | Eduardo Georgetti 1917–1921 Juan Hernández López 1921–1924 Luis Sánchez Morales 1926–1929 |
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Luis Sánchez Morales (1867–1934) |
1929 | 1933 | Republican | Celestino Iriarte Miró |
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Rafael Martínez Nadal (1877–1941) |
1933 | 1941 | Republican | Bolívar Pagán 1933–1940 Luis Padrón Rivera 1940–1941 |
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Luis Muñoz Marín (1898–1980) |
1941 | 1949 | PPD | Francisco M. Susoni Abreu 1941–1944 Samuel R. Quiñones 1945–1949 |
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Samuel R. Quiñones (1904–1976) |
1949 | 1969 | PPD | Luis Negrón López |
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Rafael Hernández Colón (1936–2019) |
1969 | 1973 | PPD | Juan J. Cancel Ríos |
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Juan J. Cancel Ríos (1925–1992) |
1973 | 1977 | PPD | Miguel Hernández Agosto |
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Luis A. Ferré Aguayo (1904–2003) |
1977 | 1981 | PNP | Manuel Ramos Barroso |
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Miguel Hernández Agosto (1927–2016) |
1981 | 1993 | PPD | Sergio Peña Clos 1981–1988 Miguel Deynes Soto 1989–1993 |
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Roberto Rexach Benítez (1929–2012) |
1993 | 1997 | PNP | Nicolás Nogueras Cartagena 1993–1995 Luisa Lebrón de Rivera 1995–1997 |
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Charles A. Rodríguez Colón (b. 1954) |
1997 | 2001 | PNP | Aníbal Marrero Pérez 1997–2000 Luz Z. Arce Ferrer 2000–2001 |
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Antonio Fas Alzamora (b. 1948) |
2001 | 2005 | PPD | Velda González de Modestti |
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Kenneth D. McClintock Hernández (b. 1957) |
2005 | 2009 | PNP | Orlando Parga Figueroa |
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Thomas Rivera Schatz (b. 1966) |
2009 | 2013 | PNP | Margarita Nolasco Santiago |
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Eduardo Bhatia (b. 1964) |
2013 | 2017 | PPD | José Luis Dalmau |
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Thomas Rivera Schatz (b. 1966) |
2017 | Present | PNP | Larry Seilhamer Rodríguez |
References
- Pub.L. 64–368
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