Baltasar Corrada del RÃo
Baltasar Corrada del Río ( born April 10, 1935 in Morovis ) is a Puerto Rican politician. Between 1977 and 1985 represented Puerto Rico as a delegate ( Resident Commissioner ) in the House of Representatives of the United States.
Career
Baltasar Corrada del Río attended the public schools of his home. In 1952 he graduated from the Colegio de Varones Ponceño High School. Then he studied until 1956 at the University of Puerto Rico. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and his 1959 was admitted to the bar he began in San Juan to work in this profession. In 1969 he became a member of the local Civil Rights Commission. He has also written articles for the time the newspaper El Mundo. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party and the Puerto Rican Partido Nuevo Progresista.
In the congressional elections of 1976 Corrada was for four years as a non-voting delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jaime Benítez Rexach on January 3, 1977. After a re-election for another four years, he could remain until January 3, 1985 at the Congress. He campaigned for the inclusion of Puerto Rico as a regular state in the United States. In 1984 he gave up another candidacy.
Between 1985 and 1989, was Corrada del Río Mayor of the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan; 1993 to 1995 he served as Secretary of State this U.S. foreign territory. Between 1995 and 2005 he was a judge at the local Supreme Court. In 1988 he applied unsuccessfully for the office of the Governor of Puerto Rico. Today he works as an independent advocate in an advisory capacity for a large law firm in Puerto Rico.