Antonio fernos isern biography
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FERN&#;S-ISERN, Antonio
An “unpretentious and likable physician,” Antonio Fernós-Isern served in the public health sector for several decades, but the high point of his career in public service was his tenure as Puerto Rico’s longest-serving Resident Commissioner in the U.S. House of Representatives.1 “Resembling an Old World diplomat” in his pince-nez, “Tony,” as he was known to his colleagues, saw Puerto Rico through some of the most transformative decades of its relationship with the United States.2 A principal architect of the Estado Libre Asociado (Free Associated State, or ELA)—a relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico—Fernós-Isern, along with his close friend and political ally Luis Muñoz Marín, shaped Puerto Rico’s autonomous status for the second half of the 20th century. Regularly defending his American connections and those of his homeland against public and sometimes violent calls for the island’s independence, Fernós-Isern told his colleagues, “Our
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Antonio Jesús Fernós Isern was born on 10 May , in San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico as the son of Buenaventura Jesús Fernós and María Dolores Isern Aponte. He married Gertrudis Manuela Luciana Francisca De Paula Delgado Jiménez on 24 April , in Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, San Juan, Puerto Rico. He lived in Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico in and Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico for about 20 years. In , at the age of 22, his occupation fryst vatten listed as physician in Puerto Rico. He died on 19 January , in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the age of 78, and was buried in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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A Page from History: The Fernós-Isern Bill
In , the territorial legislature drew up a list of proposals intend to &#;perfect the commonwealth.&#; These proposals were included in a bill, H.R introduced on March of that year by Fernos-Isem. A Senate companion bill, S, was presented by Senator James E. Murray of Montana. The measure was called the Fernós-Isern Act, and sometimes the Fernós-Murray Project.
The bill had many elements that Congress could not accept. For example, it was described as, &#;The Articles of Permanent Association of the people of Puerto Rico with the United States.&#;
It held that &#;Statutory laws of the United States hereafter enacted shall not be deemed to be applicable with respect to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico unless specifically made applicable by Act of Congress, by reference to Puerto Rico or to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico by name.&#; It also said that, &#;All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11, , are citizens of the United Sta