List of Secretaries of Education of Puerto Rico

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There have been three types of Secretaries of Education in Puerto Rico. The first were the Education Commissioners established in 1899 after Puerto Rico was succeeded to the United States from Spain. The second were the Secretaries of Public Instruction after the Department of Public Instruction was formally established by law. Today Puerto Rico has Secretaries of Education after the Department of Public Instruction was reorganized and renamed as the Department of Education.^[1] The following is a list of all the aforementioned executives.

Education Commissioners

#	Name	Date it took office	Date it left office	Political party	Appointed by
1	Martin G. Brumbaugh	1900	1902	Republican	William McKinley
2	Samuel McCune Lindsay	1902	1904	Republican	Theodore Roosevelt
3	Ronald R. Falkner	1904	1907	Republican	Theodore Roosevelt
4	Edwin G. Dexter	1907	1912	Republican	William Howard Taft
5	Edward M. Bainter	1912	1915	Democrat	Woodrow Wilson
6	Paul G. Miller	1915	1921	Democrat	Woodrow Wilson
7	Juan B. Huyke	1921	1929	Republican	Warren G. Harding
8	José Padín	1930	1936	Republican	Herbert Hoover
9	H. A. Martin	1937	1937	Democrat	Franklin D. Roosevelt
10	José M. Gallardo	1937	1945	Democrat	Franklin D. Roosevelt
11	Mariano Villaronga Toro	1946	1947	Democrat	Harry S. Truman
12	Francisco Collazo	1947	1948	Democrat Party (United States)Democrat	Harry S. Truman

Secretaries of Public Instruction

PPD PNP
#	Name	Date it took office	Date it left office	Political party	Appointed by	Affiliation
1	Mariano Villaronga Toro	1949	1957	PPD	Luis Muñoz Marin	Democrat
2	Efraín Sánchez Hidalgo	1957	1960	PPD	Luis Muñoz Marin	Democrat
3	Cándido Oliveras	1960	1964	PPD	Luis Muñoz Marin	Democrat
4	Ángel Quintero Alfaro	1965	1968	PPD	Roberto Sanchez Vilella	Democrat
5	Ramón Mellado Parsons	1969	1971	PNP	Luis A. Ferre	Republican
6	Tania Viera	1972	1972	PNP	Luis A. Ferre	Republican
7	Celeste Benítez	1973	1973	PPD	Rafael Hernandez Colon	Democrat
8	Ramón A. Cruz Aponte	1973	1976	PPD	Rafael Hernandez Colon	Democrat
9	Herman Sulsona	1977	1977	PNP	Carlos Romero Barcelo	Democrat
10	Carlos A. Chardón	1977	1980	PNP	Carlos Romero Barcelo	Democrat
11	María Socorro Lacott	1980	1984	PNP	Carlos Romero Barcelo	Democrat
12	Awilda Aponte Roque	1985	1988	PPD	Rafael Hernandez Colon	Democrat
13	Rafael Cartagena	1989	1989	PPD	Rafael Hernandez Colon	Democrat

Secretaries of Education

   PDP
   
   NPP

#	Name	Date it took office	Date it left office	Political party in Puerto Rico
1	José Lema Moya	1989	1991	PDP
2	Celeste Benítez Rivera	1991	1992	PDP
3	Annabelle Padilla Rodríguez	1993	1993	NPP
4	José Arsenio Torres	1993	1994	NPP
5	Víctor Fajardo	1994	2000	NPP
6	César Rey Hernández	2001	2004	PDP
7	Rafael Aragunde Torres	2005	2008	PDP
8	Carlos A. Chardón	2009	2009	NPP
9	Odette Piñeiro Caballero	2009	2010	NPP
10	Jesús Rivera Sánchez	2010	2011	NPP
11	Edward Moreno	2011	2012	NPP
12	Rafael Román Meléndez	2013	present	PDP

References

Cabinet of Puerto Rico

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