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Pedro Rosselló

Pedro Juan Rosselló González (; born April 5, 1944) is a Puerto Rican physician and politician who served two consecutive terms as the seventh democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001. Rosselló was president of the New Progressive Party (PNP) from 1991 to 1999 and 2003 to 2008. He was also a member of the Senate of Puerto Rico for the district of Arecibo from 2005 to 2008. His son, Ricardo, was governor of Puerto Rico from 2017 to 2019.

In 1988, Rosselló ran for Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, but lost to Jaime Fuster. From 1990 to 1991, he successfully challenged former Governor Carlos Romero Barceló for the presidency of the New Progressive Party (PNP). As governor from 1992 to 2001, he served as president of the Council of State Governments, and chairman of the Southern Governors' Association and the Democratic Governors Association.

In 2003, Rosselló won the PNP gubernatorial nomination for the 2004 general elections against PNP President Carlos Pesquera, but lost the governorship to Anibal Acevedo Vilá by a disputed razor-thin margin. From 2005 to 2008, Rosselló filled a vacant seat left in the Senate of Puerto Rico from the district of Arecibo. As a senator, he unsuccessfully tried to replace Kenneth McClintock as the Senate President. Rosselló lost the PNP gubernatorial nomination for the 2008 general elections to Resident Commissioner Luis Fortuño, who was elected governor. During the governorship of his son Ricardo from 2017 to 2019, he served as a shadow member to the United States House of Representatives from Puerto Rico. Provided by Wikipedia