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Pedro Juan Rosselló González (born April 5, 1944) was the sixth democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001. He also served as President of the Council of State Governments as well as Chairman of the Southern Governors Association . Rosselló seeked a third term on the General Elections of 2004The Puerto Rico General Elections of 2004 took place on Election Day, Tuesday, November 2, 2004. After a count by the State Commission of Elections, the winner will be inaugurated to a four-year term as Governor of Puerto Rico on January 2, 2005. The post but was apparently defeated by Resident Commissioner Anibal Acevedo Vila by a margin of aproximately 3,880 votes. However, a full recount of the elections is expected since the margin of victory was so small.
1 Education
Roselló attended high school at Academia del Perpetuo Socorro in Miramar , a suburb of San Juan. He obtained his bachelor's degree at the University of Notre Dame in 1966. After graduation, he continued his studies in Medicine at Yale University , which he completed in 1970, and later specialized in pediatric surgery . He later attended the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus where he earned a Master's in Public Health (MPH) degree in 1981. He was a professor of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, at the Department of Pediatrics, and also practiced his profession at the San Jorge Children's Hospital. He also served as Director of Health for the city of San Juan.
2 Political career
Rosselló became active in politics in 1988 when he ran for the post of Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, losing to Jaime Fuster of the PPD. He then ran for Governor in the elections of 1992, defeating Victoria Muñoz Mendoza, whose father was Luis Muñoz Marín, the first elected Governor of the island. In 1996, he ran for re-election against Hector Luis Acevedo, Mayor of San Juan, and won the re-election after obtaining more than one million votes.
