Antonio Fernós Isern

Antonio Fernós Isern

Antonio Fernós Isern (born May 10, 1895 in San Lorenzo , †  January 19, 1974 in San Juan ) was a Puerto Rican politician . Between 1946 and 1965 he represented Puerto Rico as a delegate ( Resident Commissioner ) in the House of Representatives of the United States .

Career

Antonio Fernós Isern attended public schools and high schools in Puerto Rico. He then graduated from the Pennsylvania State Normal School in Bloomsburg . After a subsequent medical degree at the University of Maryland and his license to practice medicine in 1915, he began to work in this profession in Caguas , Puerto Rico. In 1919 he was the health officer for Puerto Rico's capital, San Juan. In 1920 and 1921 and between 1923 and 1931 he was deputy and from 1931 to 1933 and from 1942 to 1946 actual Minister of Health of Puerto Rico. From 1931 to 1935 he also served on the faculty of the Public Health School of Tropical Medicine of Puerto Rico . Politically, he was a member of the Partido Popular Democrático . In 1940 he unsuccessfully applied for the office of Resident Commissioner . In 1942, at the time of World War II, he was director of civil defense for the metropolitan area of ​​Puerto Rico.

After the resignation of Congress delegate Jesús T. Piñero , Fernós Isern was appointed by the Governor of Puerto Rico as his successor as a non-voting delegate in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on September 11, 1946. After four re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1965 ; there he was a member of the democratic group. In 1964 he declined to run again. After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Fernós Isern served in the Puerto Rico Senate from 1965 to 1969 . He died on January 19, 1974 in San Juan, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Antonio Fernós Isern in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)