List of Speakers of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico

This is a list of people that have held the post of Speaker of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico. The House of Representatives has elected its own Speaker for more than 116 years since the Foraker Act formally established the post on April 12, 1900.^[1]

List

  Republican Party    Union Party    New Progressive Party    Popular Democratic Party

#	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Party	Speaker pro tempore
1		Manuel F. Rossy Calderón	December 3, 1900	December 31, 1904	Republican
2		Rosendo Matienzo Cintrón	January 10, 1905	December 31, 1906	Union
3		Francisco P. Acuña y Paniagua	January 14, 1907	March 6, 1907	Union
4		José de Diego Martínez	March 6, 1907	July 16, 1918	Union	Juan Bernardo Huyke
5		Juan Bernardo Huyke	November 26, 1918	December 31, 1920	Union	Miguel Guerra Mondragón
6		Cayetano Coll y Cuchí	February 14, 1921	February 11, 1923	Union	Alfonso Lastra Chárriez
7		Miguel Guerra Mondragrón	February 12, 1923	December 31, 1924	Union	Alfonso Lastra Chárriez
8		José Tous Soto	February 9, 1925	February 18, 1930	Republican	Miguel Guerra Modragón 1925-1929 Benigno Fernández García 1929-1930
9		Manuel F. Rossy Calderón	February 20, 1930	August 6, 1932	Republican	Enrique Landrón Otero 1930 Rafael Alonso Torres 1930-1931
10		Rafael Alonso Torres	October 18, 1932	December 31, 1932	Socialist	Jorge Romaní
11		Miguel A. García Méndez	February 13, 1933	December 31, 1940	Republican	Rafael Alonso Torres
12		Samuel R. Quiñones Quiñones	February 12, 1941	March 5, 1943	PPD	Luis Sánchez Frasqueri
13		Rafael Arrillaga Torrens	March 5, 1943	February 24, 1944	Socialist	Julio Reguero González
14		Rafael Rodríguez Pacheco	February 24, 1944	December 31, 1944	Republican	Julio Reguero González
15		María L. Gómez Garriga	January 11, 1945	February 12, 1945	PPD	Guillermo Alicea Campos
16		Francisco M. Susoni Abreu	February 12, 1945	June 5, 1948	PPD	Ernesto Ramos Antonini
17		Ernesto Ramos Antonini	June 22, 1948	January 9, 1963	PPD	Benjamín Ortiz Ortiz 1949-1952 María L. Gómez Garriga 1953-1956 Jorge Font Saldaña 1957-1962
18		Santiago Polanco Abreu	January 14, 1963	December 31, 1964	PPD	Benjamín Ortiz Ortiz
19		Arcilio Alvarado Alvarado	January 11, 1965	December 31, 1968	PPD	Aguedo Mojica
20		Angel Viera Martínez	January 13, 1969	December 31, 1972	PNP	Rubén Otero Bosco 1969-1970 José E. Salichs Lope de Haro 1970-1972
21		Luis E. Ramos Yordán	January 8, 1973	December 31, 1976	PPD	Severo Colberg Ramírez
22		Angel Viera Martínez	January 10, 1977	January 28, 1982	PNP	José N. Granados Navedos 1977 - 1978 José E. Salichs Lope de Haro 1978 - December 31, 1980 Severo Colberg Ramírez 1981 - 1982
23		Severo Colberg Ramírez	January 28, 1982	December 31, 1984	PPD	Presby Santiago García
24		José R. Jarabo Alvarez	January 14, 1985	December 31, 1992	PPD	Samuel Ramírez Torres
25		Zaida R. Hernández Torres	January 11, 1993	December 31, 1996	PNP	Edison Misla Aldarondo
26		Edison Misla Aldarondo	January 13, 1997	December 31, 2000	PNP	José N. Granados Navedos January 1997 - June 30, 1999 Edwin Mundo Ríos June 30, 1999 - December 31, 2000
27		Carlos Vizcarrondo Irizarry	January 8, 2001	December 31, 2004	PPD	Ferdinand Pérez Román
28		José F. Aponte Hernández	January 10, 2005	December 31, 2008	PNP	Epifanio Jiménez
29		Jenniffer A. González Colón	January 12, 2009	January 1, 2013	PNP	Gabriel Rodríguez Aguiló
30		Jaime Perelló	January 14, 2013	August 29, 2016	PPD	Roberto Rivera

References

Years in Puerto Rico (1899–present)
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