Javier Rivera Aquino
Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico
In office
2009–2011
Member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives from the 22nd District
In office
2005–2009
Personal details
BornLares, Puerto Rico
Alma materOhio State University (BArch)
OccupationFarmer

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 2009, representing the towns of Utuado, Adjuntas, Jayuya and Lares, Rivera Aquino has Bachelors of Science in Agriculture Soil Science from Ohio State University[1] agronomist who owns and operated a farm in Lares.

References

  1. "Que Pasa Ohio State". 9 March 2019.
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