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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Puerto RicoLARRINAGA, Tulio
(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.
Larrinaga, Tulio. Brief of Honorable Tulio Larrinaga
. Washington, D.C.: N.p., 1908.
———. Civil Government for Puerto Rico.
Washington: N.p., 1910.
“Tulio Larrinaga” in Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-1995
. Prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by Carmen E. Enciso and Tracy North, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1995.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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