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 represented Puerto Rico as a delegate ( Resident Commissioner ) in the House of Representatives of the United States.

Career

Jaime Fuster attended the common schools and then studied until 1962 at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. After a subsequent law studies at the Law Faculty of the University of Puerto Rico and to the law schools of Columbia University and Harvard University, and his admission to the bar he began the Law Faculty at several universities to teach. Between 1974 and 1978 he was Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Puerto Rico. In the years 1980 and 1981 he worked as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice. From 1981 to 1984 he headed 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 was Fuster non-voting delegate for four years in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Baltasar Corrada del Río on January 3, 1985. After a re-election, he could remain until his resignation on 4 March 1992 in Congress. He was a member of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. His resignation took place after his appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. This office he held until his death on December 3, 2007 in Guaynabo.