Javier Rivera Aquino

Javier Rivera Aquino, an agronomist and farmer, and former Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico, appointed by Governor Luis Fortuño and sworn in by Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock on January 2, 2009. In December, 2011 he announced that he would resign his office on the third anniversary of his swearing in, January 7, 2011, in order to spend more time with his family, which resides in Lares, a grueling two-and-a-half-hour one-way commute from the Department's offices in San Juan.

A former member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives from 2005 to 2008, representing the towns of Utuado, Adjuntas, Jayuya and Lares, Rivera Aquino is an Ohio State University-educated^[1] agronomist who owns and operated a farm in Lares.

References

↑ http://quepasa.osu.edu/issues/sp09/sp4.html

15th Cabinet of Puerto Rico

Neftalí Soto
Miguel Romero
Omar Marrero
Jesús González
José Pérez Riera
Edward Moreno
Yanitzia Irizarry
Lorenzo González

Miguel Hernandez Vivoni
Guillermo Somoza
Miguel Romero
Daniel Galán
Henry Neumann
Kenneth McClintock
Rubén Hernández Gregorat
Jesús F. Méndez

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