Biography of Rafael Hernández Colón
Name: Rafael Hernández Colón
Birth Date: October 24, 1936
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: N/A
Nationality: Puerto Rican
Gender: Male
Occupations: governor
Rafael Hernández Colón
Rafael Hernández Colón (born 1936), Puerto Rican political leader and twice-elected governor, was one of the foremost defenders of commonwealth status for his country.Rafael Hernández Colón was born on October 24, 1936, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, the son of Rafael Hernández Matos, a lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, and Dorinda Colón Clavell. After receiving his elementary education at private schools in Ponce he attended high school at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1953. He then entered Johns Hopkins University, from which he graduated with honors in 1956 with a B.A. degree in political science.Upon returning to Puerto Rico he studied law at the University of Puerto Rico; where he received his law degree in 1959, graduating magna cum laude and as valedictorian of his class. That same year …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…the island's electorate toward statehood. Further Reading There are some good volumes on Puerto Rican politics and Hernández Colón's contributions toward the resolution of the island's multiple problems. Examples are: Kal Wagenheim, Puerto Rico: a Profile (1970); Jorge Heine and J. M. Garcia-Passalacqua, The Puerto Rican Question (1983); Jorge Heine, editor, Time for Decision (1983); Raymond J. Carr, Puerto Rico: a Colonial Experiment, New York and London: New York University Press, (1984); Richard J. Bloomfield, editor, Puerto Rico and the Search for National Policy, Boulder, Colorado, and London: Westview Press, Inc., (1985); and Ronald Fernandez' The Disenchanted Island: Puerto Rico and the United States in the Twentieth Century, 2nd edition,Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, (1996.) All are clear, thorough and precise discussions of the island's political and economic problems and Hernández Colón's attempts to resolve these problems in a manner which is beneficial and amicable to both sides.
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