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Apr 05, 1944 San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States 80 years old
Seventh Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
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About Pedro Rosselló
- Pedro Juan Rosselló González, (Spanish pronunciation: [rose'?o]; born April 5, 1944) is a Puerto Rican physician and politician who served as Governor of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001.
- He was President of the New Progressive Party from 1991 to 1999 and 2003 to 2008, and served as Senator for the District of Arecibo from 2005 to 2008.
- His son, Ricardo was the 12th Governor of Puerto Rico, who became the first Puerto Rican governor to resign.
- In 1988 Rosselló ran for Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, but lost to Jaime Fuster in the 1988 elections.
- From 1990 to 1991 he successfully challenged former Governor and then-NPP President Carlos Romero Barceló for the NPP's presidency.
- He was thereafter elected Governor of Puerto Rico in 1992 and in 1996 was re-elected by the widest electoral margin up to that date.
- He also served as President of the Council of State Governments as well as Chairman of the Southern Governors' Association, and Democratic Governors Association.
- He retired from active politics in 2001. In 2003 Rosselló made a comeback, winning the NPP's 2004 gubernatorial nomination in primaries against then-NPP President Carlos Pesquera.
- He then lost the 2004 gubernatorial race to Anibal Acevedo Vilá by an unprecedented and a vigorously disputed razor-thin margin.
- Soon after an elected NPP Senator from Arecibo resigned his seat and Rosselló filled the vacancy.
- From 2005 to 2006 Rosselló unsuccessfully sought to remove Senate President Kenneth McClintock from that position and replace him.
- In 2008 Rosselló lost the NPP's 2008 gubernatorial nomination to then-Resident Commissioner and future Governor Luis Fortuño.
- Thereafter he completed his term as Senator and retired for good from active politics.
