Jorge Luis Córdova

Who was Jorge Luis Córdova?

Jorge Luis Córdova Díaz served as Puerto Rico's eleventh Resident Commissioner. His father, Félix Córdova Dávila, had served as Puerto Rico's fourth Resident Commissioner from 1917 to 1932.

Born in Manatí, Puerto Rico, Córdova attained his A.B. at Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, in 1928 and his LL.B. from Harvard University Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1931. He was a lawyer in private practice. He served as a Superior Court judge in San Juan from 1940 to 1945. He served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico from 1945 to 1946.

Córdova was unexpectedly elected, as the New Progressive Party candidate for Resident Commissioner, for a four-year term that spanned the Ninety-First and Ninety-Second Congress. His victory as gubernatorial candidate Luis A. Ferré's running mate, was unexpected since the Popular Democratic Party had ruled Puerto Rico for 28 consecutive years. Although a Republican, he sat with the Democrats in caucus. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1972, and became a business executive.