Luis Fortuño, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Luis Fortuño

Puerto Rican politician

Date of Birth: 31-Oct-1960

Place of Birth: San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States

Profession: lawyer, politician

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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About Luis Fortuño

  • Luis Guillermo Fortuño Burset (born 31 October 1960) is a Puerto Rican politician who served as governor of Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States of America, and as president of the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico (PNP) until 2013, served as president of the Council of State Governments during 2012 and served as president of the Southern Governors Association from 2011 to 2012.
  • On 26 June 2011 he announced his plans to run for reelection.
  • He was defeated in the 2012 elections by Alejandro Garcia Padilla.In the 1990s, Fortuño served as the first secretary of economic development and commerce (1994–1997), as the executive director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company (1993–1994), and as the president of the Puerto Rico Hotel Development Corporation during the administration of Pedro Rosselló. In 2003 Fortuño won the 2004 PNP nomination for resident commissioner of Puerto Rico in primaries against former governor Carlos Romero Barceló, former Senate president Charlie Rodriguez and then-senator Miriam Ramírez de Ferrer.
  • He was then elected resident commissioner in 2004, defeating Senator Roberto Prats.
  • Fortuño represented Puerto Rico from 2005 to 2009 in the United States House of Representatives, and served as Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Conference, a Member of the newly created United States House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Insular Affairs and co-chair, with Representative Xavier Becerra (D-CA), of the Friends of Spain Caucus. Fortuño later won the PNP gubernatorial nomination by a wide margin after defeating former governor and then-senator Pedro Rosselló in the primaries.
  • He then won the general election for governor by a comfortable margin during the 2008 elections, defeating incumbent governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá.

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