Gaspar Rivera Cestero

Gaspar Rivera Cestero was a former member of the Puerto Rican state legislature.

He was a member of Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity.[1][2]

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.[1] On September 1, 1938, he was elected as a delegate for the district of Bayamon to the board of the Puerto Rico Bar Association.[3]

In 1940 he was elected to the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico for the disctict of Humacao, as a member of the "Unificación Tripartita" party.[4]

In 1959 he was awarded the Order of Isabella the Catholic in the grade of Knight.[5]

He was the Honorary Consul for the Federal Republic of Germany in Puerto Rico.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Federation of Insurance Counsel quarterly (The Federation) 14, 1963: 87 Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ "Capitulo Eterno". fisigmaalfa.org. Retrieved 2010-12-27.
  3. ↑ Mondríguez Torres, Carlos (August 25, 2009). Ponencia de Carlos Mondríguez Torres En torno al P de la C 152 Ante la Comisión de Seguridad Pública y Asuntos de la Judicatura del Senado Reunida en el Colegio de Abogados 25 de agosto de 2009 (PDF) (in Spanish). Puerto Rico. p. 10. Retrieved August 21, 2010.
  4. ↑ Bayrón Toro, Fernando (2003). Elecciones y Partidos Politicos de Puerto Rico 1809-2000 (in Spanish). Mayagüez, Puerto Rico: Editorial Isla. 196. ISBN 0-9650185-0-4.
  5. ↑ "Conceción de condecoraciones con motivo del Dia de la Victoria". La Vanguardia (in Spanish) (Spain: La Vanguardia). April 1, 1959. p. 16. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
  6. ↑ Foreign consular offices in the United States, Dept. of State, 1979, p. 39.
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