Tulio Larrinaga

Tulio Larrinaga (born January 15, 1847 in Trujillo Alto , Puerto Rico , † April 28, 1917 in San Juan , Puerto Rico) was a Puerto Rican and American politician . Between 1905 and 1911 he represented Puerto Rico as a delegate ( Resident Commissioner ) in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Tulio Larrinaga attended the Seminario Consiliar of San Ildefonso in San Juan. He then trained as a civil engineer at the Polytechnic Institute in Troy , New York, USA . He then studied until 1871 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia . For some time he worked as a civil engineer in the United States. In 1872 he returned to Puerto Rico, where he worked as an architect for the city of San Juan. In 1880 he built the first railroad in Puerto Rico. He worked as a civil engineer for ten years. In 1898 he became Deputy Minister of the Interior of the then autonomous government of Puerto Rico. In 1900 he was sent as a delegate to Washington, DC , and in 1902 he became a member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives . Politically, he was a member of the local party Unión de Puerto Rico .

In the congressional elections of 1904 Larrinaga was elected as a non-voting delegate to the US House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded Federico Degetau on March 4, 1905 . He was able to exercise this mandate until March 3, 1911. In 1906 he was an American delegate to the Pan American Congress in Rio de Janeiro . In 1911 Larrinaga was a member of the Government Council of Puerto Rico. Otherwise he worked as a civil engineer in San Juan, where he died on April 28, 1917.

Web links

• Tulio Larrinaga in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)