Tulio Larrinaga

Tulio Larrinaga (January 15, 1847 - April 28, 1917) was a Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.

Born in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, Larrinaga attended the Seminario Consiliar of San Ildefonso at San Juan, Puerto Rico.He studied civil engineering in the Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1871.He practiced his profession for some time in the United States.He returned to Puerto Rico in 1872 and was appointed architect for the city of San Juan.He built the first railroad in Puerto Rico in 1880 and introduced American rolling stock on the island.He was for ten years chief engineer of the provincial works.In 1898 he was appointed assistant secretary of the interior under the autonomic government and in 1900 was sent by his party as a delegate to Washington.He served as member of the house of delegates for the district of Arecibo in 1902.

Larrinaga was elected as a Unionist Resident Commissioner to the United States in 1904.He was reelected in 1906 and 1908 and served from March 4, 1905, until March 3, 1911.He served as delegate from the United States to the Third Pan American Congress at Rio de Janeiro in 1906.He served as member of the executive council of Puerto Rico in 1911.He resumed the practice of his profession as a civil engineer in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and died there on April 28, 1917.He was interred in the Municipal Cemetery at Santurce.

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