Juan Zaragoza | |
State Senate: | Puerto Rico |
District: | at-large |
Term Start: | January 2021 |
Office1: | Secretary of Treasury of Puerto Rico |
Governor1: | Alejandro García Padilla |
Term Start1: | October 26, 2014 |
Term End1: | January 2, 2017 |
Predecessor1: | Melba Acosta |
Successor1: | Raúl Maldonado |
Birth Date: | 5 October 1959 |
Birth Place: | Bayamón, Puerto Rico |
Party: | Popular Democratic |
Otherparty: | Democratic |
Juan Clemente Zaragoza Gómez (born October 5, 1959) is a certified public accountant who has been a member of the Puerto Rico Senate since 2021 and served as the former Secretary of Treasury of Puerto Rico.[1]
He graduated at Colegio Nuestra Señora Del Pilar in Río Piedras. From 2014 to 2017. Juan Zaragoza Gómez has a B.B.A. in accounting from the University of Puerto Rico and a master's in Management from Indiana University Bloomington.
Was elected to the Puerto Rico Senate as an at-large district senator. In January 2023 he announced his interest in seeking the PPD candidacy for governor in the 2024 elections.[2]
Juan Zaragoza lost the June 2, 2024 primary elections to Jesús Manuel Ortiz of the PPD, conceding the candidacy for governor after the result was certified by the State Elections Commission.