Pablo Hernández Rivera

Pablo Hernández Rivera


21st Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2025
Preceded by	Jenniffer González-Colón

Personal details
Born	Pablo José Hernández Rivera (1991-05-11) May 11, 1991 (age 33) San Juan, Puerto Rico
Political party	Popular Democratic
Other political affiliations	Democratic
Relatives	Rafael Hernández Colón (grandfather) Lila Mayoral Wirshing (grandmother)
Education	Harvard University (BA) Stanford University (JD)

Pablo José Hernández Rivera^[1] (born May 11, 1991) is a Puerto Rican politician who is the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico.^[2]

Early life and education

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He is the grandson of the former governor Rafael Hernández Colón and his wife Lila Mayoral Wirshing. He graduated from Academia del Perpetuo Socorro. Earned a bachelor degree from Harvard College and a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School.^[3]

Career

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Hernández Rivera was formerly assistant secretary of federal and international affairs for the Popular Democratic Party.^[4] On the federal level, Hernández Rivera is affiliated with the Democratic Party.^[5]^[6]

In November 2024, in an opinion piece in The Hill, Pablo José Hernández announced that for the first time since 2000, Puerto Rican voters had chosen as their delegate to the United States House of Representatives an opponent of Puerto Rican statehood.^[7]

References

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^ McCumber, Kevin A. (Acting Clerk) (October 18, 2024). Nominees for the Offices of US Senator and US Representative in the 119th Congress from Official Sources for the Election of November 5, 2024 (PDF). United States House of Representatives. p. 31. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
^ "Pablo José Hernández asegura que "vamos todos a Washington"". Primera Hora (in Spanish). 2024-11-06. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
^ "PR-AL: Pablo José Hernández Rivera (D)". The Well News. November 6, 2024.
^ "Pablo José Hernández se proclama ganador de la comisaría residente". Metro Puerto Rico (in Spanish). 2024-11-05. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
^ Santiago, Manuel (2024-08-19). "Pablo Hernández inició su agenda en la Convención del Partido Demócrata en Chicago". IslaNewsPR. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
^ "EEUU-Inicia Hernández Rivera su agenda en la convención del Partido Demócrata". Inter News Service – Agencia de Noticias (in Spanish). 2024-08-18. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
^ "Pablo José Hernández reclama en publicación estadounidense dejar a un lado el debate sobre la estadidad". El Nuevo Dia. November 26, 2024.

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Jenniffer González	Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico 2025–present	Incumbent

v t e Political officials of Puerto Rico
Shadow U.S. Senators	Zoraida Buxó Melinda Romero
U.S. House	Pablo Hernández Rivera, Resident commissioner Roberto Lefranc Fortuño Ricky Rosselló 2 vacant, Shadow Representatives at-large
Executive government	Jenniffer González-Colón, Governor Verónica Ferraiuoli, Acting Secretary of State (appointed) Janet Parra Mercado, Acting Secretary of Justice (appointed) Ángel Pantoja, Acting Secretary of the Treasury (appointed)
Senate	José Luis Dalmau, President Marially González Huertas, President pro tempore Javier Aponte Dalmau, Majority Leader Thomas Rivera Schatz, Minority Leader
House	Tatito Hernández, Speaker Conny Varela, Speaker pro tempore Angel Matos García, Majority Leader Carlos Johnny Méndez, Minority Leader
Supreme Court (appointed)	Maite Oronoz Rodríguez, Chief Justice Rafael Martínez Torres Mildred Pabón Erick Kolthoff Edgardo Rivera García Luis Estrella Martínez Roberto Feliberti Cintrón Angel Colón-Pérez 1 vacant, Associate Justices

Current members of the United States House of Representatives

Speaker: Mike Johnson

Majority

v t e Republican Party conference
Speaker: Mike Johnson ‧ Majority Leader: Steve Scalise ‧ Majority Whip: Tom Emmer
Other members: Aderholt Alford Allen Amodei Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Barr Barrett Baumgartner Bean Begich Bentz Bergman Bice A. Biggs S. Biggs Bilirakis Boebert Bost Brecheen Bresnahan Buchanan Burchett Burlison Calvert Cammack Carey B. Carter J. Carter Ciscomani Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Collins Comer Crane Crank Crawford Crenshaw Davidson De La Cruz DesJarlais Díaz-Balart Donalds Downing Dunn Edwards Ellzey Estes Evans Ezell Fallon Fedorchak Feenstra Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flood Fong Foxx Franklin Fry Fulcher Garbarino Gill Giménez C. Goldman Gonzales Gooden Gosar Graves Green Greene Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Hamadeh Haridopolos Harrigan A. Harris M. Harris Harshbarger Hern Higgins Hill Hinson Houchin Hudson Huizenga Hunt Hurd Issa Jack R. Jackson James D. Johnson Jordan D. Joyce J. Joyce Kean M. Kelly T. Kelly M. Kennedy Kiggans Kiley Kim Knott Kustoff LaHood LaLota LaMalfa Langworthy Latta Lawler Lee Letlow Loudermilk Lucas Luna Luttrell Mace Mackenzie Malliotakis Maloy Mann Massie Mast McCaul McClain McClintock McCormick McDowell McGuire Messmer Meuser C. Miller Mary Miller Max Miller Miller-Meeks Mills Moolenaar Ba. Moore Bl. Moore R. Moore T. Moore Moran Murphy Nehls Newhouse Norman Nunn Obernolte Ogles Onder Owens Palmer Perry Pfluger Reschenthaler H. Rogers M. Rogers Rose Rouzer Roy Rulli Rutherford Salazar Schmidt Schweikert A. Scott Self Sessions Shreve Simpson A. Smith C. Smith J. Smith Smucker Spartz Stauber Stefanik Steil Steube Strong Stutzman Taylor Tenney Thompson Tiffany Timmons Turner Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Orden Wagner Walberg Waltz Weber Webster Westerman Wied R. Williams Wilson Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke
Delegates: King-Hinds Moylan Radewagen

Minority

v t e Democratic Party caucus
Minority Leader: Hakeem Jeffries ‧ Minority Whip: Katherine Clark
Other members: Adams Aguilar Amo Ansari Auchincloss Balint Barragán Beatty Bell Bera Beyer Bishop Bonamici Boyle Brown Brownley Budzinski Bynum Carbajal Carson T. Carter Casar Case Casten Castor Castro Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cisneros Clarke Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Conaway Connolly Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crockett Crow Cuellar Davids Da. Davis Do. Davis Dean DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier Dexter Dingell Doggett Elfreth Escobar Espaillat Evans Fields Figures Fletcher Foster Foushee Frankel Friedman Frost Garamendi C. García R. Garcia S. Garcia Gillen Golden D. Goldman Gomez Gonzalez Goodlander Gottheimer Green Gray Grijalva Harder Hayes Himes Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle Huffman Ivey J. Jackson Jacobs Jayapal H. Johnson J. Johnson Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Keating R. Kelly T. Kennedy Khanna Krishnamoorthi Landsman Larsen Larson Latimer Sum. Lee Sus. Lee Leger Fernandez Levin Liccardo Lieu Lofgren Lynch Magaziner Mannion Matsui McBath McBride McClain-Delaney McClellan McCollum McDonald Rivet McGarvey McGovern McIver Meeks Menendez Meng Mfume Min Moore Morelle Morrison Moskowitz Moulton Mrvan Mullin Nadler Neal Neguse Norcross Ocasio-Cortez Olszewski Omar Pallone Panetta Pappas Pelosi Perez Peters Pettersen Pingree Pocan Pou Pressley Quigley Ramirez Randall Raskin Riley Rivas Ross Ruiz Ryan Salinas Sánchez Scanlon Schakowsky Schneider Scholten Schrier B. Scott D. Scott Sewell Sherman Sherrill Simon Smith Sorensen Soto Stansbury Stanton Stevens Strickland Subramanyam Suozzi Swalwell Sykes Takano Thanedar B. Thompson M. Thompson Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko N. Torres R. Torres Trahan Tran Turner Underwood Vargas Vasquez Veasey Velázquez Vindman Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Whitesides Williams Wilson
Delegates: Holmes Norton Plaskett Rivera

v t e Resident commissioners of Puerto Rico
Degetau Larrínaga Muñoz Rivera Córdova Dávila Pesquera Iglesias Pagán Piñero Fernós-Isern Polanco Córdova Benítez Corrada del Río Fuster Colorado Romero Barceló Acevedo Vilá Fortuño Pierluisi González Hernández Rivera

Early life and education

Career

References

See also