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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Puerto RicoTulio LARRINAGA
(1847-1917)
LARRINAGA, Tulio, a
Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico; born in Trujillo Alto,
P.R., January 15, 1847; attended the Seminario Consiliar of San
Ildefonso at San Juan, P.R.; studied civil engineering in the
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., and was graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1871; practiced his
profession for some time in the United States; returned to Puerto
Rico in 1872 and was appointed architect for the city of San Juan;
built the first railroad in Puerto Rico in 1880 and introduced
American rolling stock on the island; was for ten years chief
engineer of the provincial works; in 1898 was appointed assistant
secretary of the interior under the autonomic government and in
1900 was sent by his party as a delegate to Washington; member of
the house of delegates for the district of Arecibo in 1902; elected
as a Unionist Resident Commissioner to the United States in 1904;
reelected in 1906 and 1908 and served from March 4, 1905, until
March 3, 1911; delegate from the United States to the Third Pan
American Congress at Rio de Janeiro in 1906; member of the
executive council of Puerto Rico in 1911; resumed the practice of
his profession as a civil engineer in San Juan, P.R., and died
there on April 28, 1917; interment in the Municipal Cemetery at
Santurce.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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