José Rodríguez Suárez, a co-founder of the

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, is the longest-serving Deputy Secretary of State of Puerto Rico, having served under two governors,

Pedro Rosselló Pedro Juan Rosselló González (; born April 5, 1944) is a Puerto Rican physician and politician who served as the governor of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001. He was President of the New Progressive Party from 1991 to 1999 and 2003 to 2008, an ...

and

Luis Fortuño Luis Guillermo Fortuño Burset (born 31 October 1960) is a Puerto Ricans, Puerto Rican politician who served as the governor of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States, from 2009 to 2013. Fortuño served as the first Secre ...

, and four

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Baltasar Corrada del Río Baltasar Corrada del Río (April 10, 1935 – March 11, 2018) was a Puerto Rican politician. He held various high political offices in the island, including President of the Puerto Rico Civil Rights Commission, Resident Commissioner (1977–198 ...

Norma Burgos Norma E. Burgos Andújar (born October 30, 1954) is a Puerto Rican politician who served as the Lieutenant Governor and the Secretary of State under Governor Pedro Rosselló from 1995 to 1999. She also served as a member of the Senate of Puert ...

and

Angel Morey Angel Morey Santiago served as chief of staff to Puerto Rico governor Pedro Rosselló, from 1995 to 2001. He also served as Rosselló's third and last Secretary of State from 1999 to 2001, appointed after Norma Burgos resigned, following her n ...

between 1993 and 2000, and

Kenneth McClintock Kenneth Davison McClintock-Hernández (born January 19, 1957) is a politician who served as the twenty-second Secretary of State of Puerto Rico, one of the four longest serving in that post. McClintock served as co-chair of Hillary Clinton’s N ...

between 2009 and 2012. As such, he was charged with directing all intergovernmental and international activities of the Department during 12 of the Department's 60-year history. A graduate of

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, he obtained his

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degree at the

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, and has been in private practice when not in public service. His op-ed's appear frequently in national and local publications. He is a pro-statehood member of the New Party for Progress locally and a Republican nationally. He was succeeded as Deputy Secretary of State on January 2, 2013 by Javier González.

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