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unusual facts about Resident Commissioner



Arthur Grimble

After joining the Colonial Office, he became a cadet administrative officer in the Gilberts (1914) and became Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony in 1926.

Nick Rathod

As such, he represented, and spoke on behalf of the President-elect, at the inauguration of Governor of Puerto Rico Luis Fortuño, who although a Republican, heads a bipartisan administration that includes two notable Democrats, Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi and Kenneth McClintock, who was appointed by Fortuño as Secretary of State, and first in the line of succession.

Norma Burgos

She subsequently campaigned for Obama's presidential campaign in Orlando, Florida in a historic campaign swing that brought together pro-statehood Democrats such as her, Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi and then-Senate President McClintock, along with pro-Commonwealth Democrats such as Democratic Party state chair Roberto Prats and Senator Eduardo Bhatia.

Puerto Rico Commission on Civil Rights

Many prominent Puerto Ricans have served over the years as members of the Commission, including former Sen. Luis Muñoz Rivera (senator), newspaper publisher Antonio Luis Ferré and former Resident Commissioner Baltasar Corrada del Río.


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Arnold Wienholt Hodson

One of his journeys, in 1906, was made in the company of Sir Ralph Williams, Resident Commissioner, and was from Serowe to Livingstone and the Victoria Falls via Lake Ngami.

Gabaldon

Isauro Gabaldon, Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands

Hurtle Square

It was named by the Street Naming Committee after James Hurtle Fisher, South Australia's first Resident Commissioner.

Jorge Cordova

Jorge Luis Córdova (1907–1994), Puerto Rico's eleventh Resident Commissioner, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, and lawyer

Movimiento Unión Soberanista

Its candidate for Governor of Puerto Rico, lawyer Arturo Hernández, came in fifth place in the 2012 elections with 0.56% of the vote; María de Lourdes Guzmán, the MUS's candidate for Resident Commissioner, also finished fifth with 0.62% of the vote.

Oscar Garcia Rivera, Sr.

Puerto Ricans became eligible for the military draft, plus they were now permitted to hold public office in the mainland United States, however Puerto Ricans in the island were not allowed to vote for the president nor were they allowed to have representatives in the US legislature, other than the Resident Commissioner, who did not have the right to vote in any of the measures presented before Congress.

Parvez Dewan

Dewan was also the resident commissioner of Jammu & Kashmir before he took charge as the chairman and managing director of India Tourism Development Corporation in 2006.

Puerto Rican status referendum, 2012

On August 1, 2013, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on Puerto Rico's status as a direct result of the 2012 plebiscite vote and invited Governor Alejandro García Padilla, Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, and pro-independence supporter Rubén Berríos to give testimony and answer questions from the committee.

Rafael Celestino Benítez

After he finished high school he was accepted in the United States Naval Academy by appointment of the Honorable Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rico's Resident Commissioner.

Roberto Prats

Senator Roberto Prats became the Popular Democratic Party's nomineee for Resident Commissioner for the upcoming elections, which he lost to Luis Fortuño, despite a big boost for his congressional campaign, when the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Terry McAuliffe endorsed him in March 2004.