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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Tulio Larrinaga attended the Seminario Consiliar of San Ildefonso, San Juan. After that, he was educated in Troy, New York State at the Polytechnic Institute as a civil engineer. Then he studied until 1871 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. For some time he worked in the United States as a civil engineer. 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 railway in Puerto Rico. For ten years he worked as a civil engineer. In 1898 he was appointed Deputy Interior Minister of the then autonomous government of Puerto Rico. In 1900 he was a delegate to Washington DC sent and in 1902 he became a member of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico. 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 in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Federico Degetau on March 4, 1905. Until March 3, 1911, he was able to exercise this mandate. In 1906, he was an American delegate to the Pan-American Congress in Rio de Janeiro. In 1911 Larrinaga belonged to the Government of Puerto Rico. Otherwise, he worked as a civil engineer in San Juan, where he died on 28 April 1917.