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Gaspar Rivera Cestero (born in 1912) was a lawyer and a former member of the Puerto Rican state legislature. Graduated with a juris doctor from the
University of Puerto Rico School of Law The University of Puerto Rico School of Law is a law school in Puerto Rico. It is one of the professional graduate schools of University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus and the only law school in the University of Puerto Rico System. It ...
. He was a member of
Phi Sigma Alpha Phi Sigma Alpha (), commonly known as La Sigma, is a Puerto Rican fraternities and sororities, Puerto Rican fraternity originally established as the Sigma Delta Alpha Fraternity (Sociedad de Amigos) on October 22, 1928, at the University of Puert ...
fraternity. He was admitted to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Bar in 1935. He was also a member of the American, Puerto Rico and Inter-American Bar Associations. On September 1, 1938, he was elected as a delegate for the district of Bayamon to the board of the Puerto Rico Bar Association. In 1940 he was elected to the
House of Representatives of Puerto Rico The House of Representatives of Puerto Rico ( es, Cámara de Representantes de Puerto Rico) is the lower house of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, the bicameral state legislature (United States), territorial legislature of Puerto Rico. ...
for the district of Humacao, as a member of the "Unificación Tripartita" party. In 1959 he was awarded the
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in the grade of Knight. He was the Honorary Consul for the
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in Puerto Rico..


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