Rafael Picó Santana
Rafael Picó | |
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Member of the Puerto Rico Senate from the district | |
In office 1965–1968 | |
Personal details | |
Political party | Popular Democratic Party (PPD) |
Occupation | Politician, Senator |
Rafael Picó was one of Governor Luis Muñoz Marín's closest advisors. He served as chairman of the Puerto Rico Planning Board, and served from 1965 to 1968 as a member of the Puerto Rico Senate elected by Muñoz' Popular Democratic Party (PDP).
The islands' first pro-statehood governor, Don Luis A. Ferré and President Richard M. Nixon, in 1970 created a joint United States-Puerto Rico Ad Hoc Committee to study the possibility of granting Puerto Ricans the right to vote for President as a means of building upon Puerto Rico's territorial relationship with the United States. They appointed pro-status quo PDP member Rafael Picó to co-chair the Ad Hoc Committee.
Picó was always considered to be one of the more pro-American members of the PDP.