succeeded death_date death_place birth_place imagesize party profession office preceded birth_date term article_title name
luis muñoz rivera 28 april 1917 san juan , puerto rico trujillo alto , puerto rico 200px union of puerto rico civil engineer resident commissioner of puerto rico federico degetau 15 january 1847 march 4 , 1905 - march 3 , 1911 tulio larrinaga
 tulio larrinaga
tulio larrinaga

tulio larrinaga -lrb- january 15 , 1847 - april 28 , 1917 -rrb- was a resident commissioner of puerto rico .
born in trujillo alto , puerto rico , larrinaga attended the seminario consiliar of san ildefonso at san juan , puerto rico .
he studied civil engineering at the polytechnic institute in troy , new york and , in 1871 , graduated from the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia .
larrinaga practiced his profession in the united states for some time , returning to puerto rico in 1872 where he was appointed architect for the city of san juan .
in 1880 , larrinaga built the first railroad in puerto rico and introduced american rolling stock onto the island .
for ten years he was the chief engineer of the provincial works .
larrinaga 's involvement in politics began in 1898 , when he was appointed assistant secretary of the interior in the autonomist government .
two years later , he was sent by his party as a delegate to washington , dc .
larrinaga served as member of the house of delegates for the district of arecibo in 1902 .
in 1904 , he was elected as a unionist resident commissioner to the united states .
he was reelected twice , serving from march 4 , 1905 , until march 3 , 1911 .
larrinaga also served as delegate from the united states to the third pan-american conference held in rio de janeiro in 1906 .
in 1911 , he served as a member of the executive council of puerto rico .
following his political career , larrinaga resumed the practice of civil engineering in san juan .
he died there on april 28 , 1917 and was interred at the municipal cemetery in santurce .
