Preceded by Luis Raul Torres Name Jenniffer Gonzalez Succeeded by Jaime Perello | Governor Luis Fortuno Role Politician | |
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Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla Preceded by Miriam J. Ramirez de Ferrer Education University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus (2001), University of Puerto Rico Political party New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Republican Party Profiles | ||
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House floor speech of jenniffer gonzalez in support of the us territories investor protection act
Jenniffer Aydin González Colón (born August 5, 1976) is a politician who is Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, serving since January 2017. She has occupied numerous leadership positions in the New Progressive Party (PNP in Spanish). She is also the current Chairwoman of the Puerto Rico Republican Party. Today, González serves in three prominent roles: as Minority Leader of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico, as vice-chair of the PNP, and as the chair of the Puerto Rico Republican Party. Before serving in these roles, she was elected by her peers as the 29th Speaker of the House—becoming the youngest person to hold that post at the age of thirty-two.
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- House floor speech of jenniffer gonzalez in support of the us territories investor protection act
- Jenniffer gonza lez y su activismo poli tico entrevista exclusiva
- Early life and education
- Representative
- Speaker of the House
- Chairwoman of the Republican Party of Puerto Rico
- House minority leader
- Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico
- References
In December 2015, González filed her candidacy for the PNP nomination for Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico's sole non-voting seat in the Congress. On June 5, 2016, she won the NPP nomination for Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico. On November 8, 2016, she became the first woman and youngest person to be elected as Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico.
Jenniffer gonza lez y su activismo poli tico entrevista exclusiva
Early life and education
González was born in San Juan to Jorge González and Nydia Colón, both lifelong public servants. She graduated from University Gardens High School and then studied her bachelor's degree in Political Science at the University of Puerto Rico. Subsequently, she obtained both her juris doctor and an LL.M. from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico School of Law
Representative
González was first elected to the House of Representatives in a special election held on February 24, 2002, to fill the vacancy left by former House Speaker Edison Misla Aldarondo, after his resignation as Representative from San Juan's 4th District. She was the first female elected representative of San Juan's Fourth District, the youngest member of the 14th Legislative Assembly, and the youngest woman ever to be elected to the Puerto Rico Legislative Assembly. Before being elected as Representative, González served as Chairwoman of the San Juan New Progressive Party Youth Organization and was very active in the Pro-Statehood Students movement while attending college.
González was re-elected in the 2004 Puerto Rico general elections, this time as an At-Large Representative. She served as Chairwoman of the House Government Affairs Committee, and as ranking member of the Budget, San Juan Development, Women's Affairs, and Internal Affairs Committees, as well as the Joint Commission for the Revision of the Civil Code of Puerto Rico.
Speaker of the House
González was re-elected for another term at the 2008 Puerto Rico general elections obtaining the most votes from her party, and the second most votes overall. At the age of 32, she was elected House Speaker by members of her New Party for Progress delegation during a caucus held on November 7, 2008. González defeated incumbent House Speaker José Aponte Hernández in his bid for re-election to that post, becoming the youngest person in Puerto Rican history to be elected Speaker of the House, and the third woman to hold that seat.
Chairwoman of the Republican Party of Puerto Rico
In November 2015 González was unanimously elected as Chairwoman of the Republican Party of Puerto Rico after being the party's Vice-Chair for eight years. She succeeded Aguadilla mayor Carlos Méndez in the position that once was held by former Governor Don Luis A. Ferré, founder of the New Progressive Party and Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa the founder of both the Republican Party and the statehood movement in Puerto Rico.
House minority leader
In 2012, González was again re-elected this time gathering the most votes overall, despite the fact that her party lost the majority of seats. The same night of the election, she was selected as Minority Leader of her party.
Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico
On September 14, 2015, González announced that she was throwing her hat in the ring to succeed Pedro Pierluisi as Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico. Six days later, one of Pierluisi's rivals for the gubernatorial nomination, Ricardo Rosselló, chose her as his running mate for the June 5, 2016 primary and the November 8, 2016 general election. During the ten months the primary race lasted, various public opinion polls consistently showed González to have over 70% approval ratings of the electorate, making her the most popular politician of any political party on the Island.
On June 5, 2016 González won the NPP primary by a landslide margin of 70.54% of the vote over her opponent Carlos Pesquera. She thus became the first woman in the history of the New Progressive Party to be nominated to the Resident Commissioner seat in Congress for the November general election.
On November 8, 2016 González was elected Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, with 48.77% of the vote, over her main opponent Hector Ferrer of the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico, thus becoming the first woman and youngest person to represent Puerto Rico in the U.S. Congress since the creation of the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico seat 116 years prior in 1900.