Pablo José Hernández Rivera[1] (born May 11, 1991) is a Puerto Rican politician who is the Resident commissioner-elect of Puerto Rico.[2]
| Pablo José Hernández Rivera | |
| Office: | 21st Resident Commissioner-elect of Puerto Rico |
| Predecessor: | Jenniffer González-Colón |
| Succeeding: | Jenniffer González-Colón |
| Term Start: | January 3, 2025 |
| Birth Name: | Pablo José Hernández Rivera |
| Birth Date: | 11 May 1991 |
| Birth Place: | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Education: | |
| Party: | Popular Democratic |
| Otherparty: | Democratic |
He was formerly assistant secretary of federal and international affairs for the Popular Democratic Party.[3]
He is the grandson of the former governor Rafael Hernández Colón and his wife Lila Mayoral Wirshing. He graduated from Academia del Perpetuo Socorro. Earned a bachelor degree from Harvard College and a Juris doctor from Stanford Law School.[4]
On the federal level, Hernández Rivera is affiliated with the Democratic Party.[5] [6]
In November 2024, in an opinion piece in The Hill, Pablo José Hernández announced that for the first time since 2000, Puerto Rican voters had chosen as their delegate to the United States House of Representatives an opponent of Puerto Rican statehood.[7]