Jaime Fuster

Jaime Fuster

Jaime B. Fuster Berlingeri (born January 12, 1941 in Guayama , †  December 3, 2007 in Guaynabo ) was a Puerto Rican lawyer and politician . Between 1985 and 1992 he represented Puerto Rico as a Resident Commissioner in the United States House of Representatives .

Career

Jaime Fuster attended the public schools in his home country and then studied at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana until 1962 . After studying law at the law school of the University of Puerto Rico and the law schools of Columbia University and Harvard University and his admission to the bar, he began to teach law at various universities. Between 1974 and 1978 he was Dean of the Law School of the University of Puerto Rico. He served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the US Department of Justice in 1980 and 1981 . From 1981 to 1984 he directed the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico . Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party and the Puerto Rican Partido Popular Democrático .

In the congressional elections of 1984 Fuster was elected as a non-voting delegate for four years to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Baltasar Corrada del Río on January 3, 1985 . After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on March 4, 1992 . He was a member of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs . His resignation came after his appointment as Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. He held this office until his death on December 3, 2007 in Guaynabo.

Web links

• Jaime Fuster in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)