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On November 5, 2024, Jennifer Gonzalez won the office of Governor of Puerto Rico in the 2024 general election, with over 40% of the vote. [ 32 ] On January 2, 2025, González-Colón was sworn into office as Governor of Puerto Rico, the second woman to be elected to the position and the third woman to serve.
The 2024 United States House of Representatives election in Puerto Rico to elect the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico were held on November 5, 2024. The election of the Resident Commissioner was held concurrently with the larger 2024 United States House of Representatives elections, the 2024 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election, and other U.S. federal and Puerto Rican general election races.
Incumbent New Progressive Party Governor Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia ran for re-election to a second term in office, but lost the PNP primary to Resident Commissioner Jenniffer Gonzalez Colon. [1] The Popular Democratic Party nominated Jesús Manuel Ortíz , a member of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico .
In 1973, Representative Yvonne Brathwaite Burke became the first member of either the House of Representatives or Senate to give birth while in office, and she was the first member of Congress to be granted maternity leave, with the birth of her daughter Autumn. [13] [14] Mary Rose Oakar in 1977 became the first Arab-American woman elected to ...
The resident commissioner of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Comisionado Residente de Puerto Rico) is a non-voting member of the United States House of Representatives elected by the voters of the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico every four years, [1] the only member of the House of Representatives who serves a four-year term.
On Tuesday, Jennifer McClellan made history, becoming the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress in Virginia.McClellan, a Democrat, won a special election in the Fourth Congressional ...
Eiza Gonzalez ; Jennifer Lopez Tim Whitby/Getty Images ; Hector Vivas/Getty Images Eiza González came to the defense of Jennifer Lopez after the singer announced the cancellation of her first ...
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