The Puerto Rican Statehood movement (Movimiento Estadista Puertorriqueño) refers to initiatives throughout the history of Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 aimed at obtaining statehood for the Island. The movement is not localized to one same group of individuals or even one same organization throughout the years, but represents instead the events and activities of tens of groups and organizations, and thousands of individuals, that share the common goal of advocating, supporting, or seeking statehood for Puerto Rico.

Organizations that promote statehood

• New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico
  New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico
  The New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico is a political party that advocates for Puerto Rico's admission to the United States of America as the 51st state...
  
  
• Puerto Rico Statehood Students Association
  Puerto Rico Statehood Students Association
  The Puerto Rico Statehood Students Association, Inc. , based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is an American non-profit student organization dedicated to promoting statehood for Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States...
  
  
• Republican Party of Puerto Rico

Famous Leaders

• José Celso Barbosa
  José Celso Barbosa
  Dr. José Celso Barbosa was a medical Physician, sociologist, and political leader of Puerto Rico.Known within Puerto Rico's New Progressive Party as "The father of the Statehood for Puerto Rico movement", Barbosa was also the first Puerto Rican to be awarded an American medical degree.-Early...
  
  
• Luis A. Ferré
  Luis A. Ferré
  Don Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo was a Puerto Rican engineer, industrialist, politician, philanthropist, and a patron of the arts. He was the third Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1969 to 1973, and the founding father of the New Progressive Party which advocates for Puerto Rico...
  
  
• Miguel A. García Méndez
  Miguel A. García Méndez
  Miguel Angel García Méndez was a recognized businessman, lawyer, statesman, and banker in Puerto Rico. He was a lifelong statehood supporter for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico...
  
  
• Carlos Romero Barceló
  Carlos Romero Barceló
  Carlos Antonio Romero Barceló is a Puerto Rican politician who served as the fifth Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the second governor to be elected from the New Progressive Party and also Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001, making him one of the more successful...
  
   (former Governor)
• Pedro Rosselló
  Pedro Rosselló
  Pedro Juan Rosselló González, M.D., , is a Puerto Rican physician and politician who served as the sixth Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001...
  
   (former Governor)
• Luis Fortuño
  Luis Fortuño
  Luis Guillermo Fortuño Burset is the governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States of America. Fortuño is also the president of the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico , a member of the Republican National Committee, and will be president of the Council of State...
  
   (incumbent Governor)
• Pedro Pierluisi
  Pedro Pierluisi
  Pedro R. Pierluisi Urrutia is a Puerto Rican lawyer and politician affiliated with the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico and the United States Democratic Party...
  
   (incumbent Resident Commissioner to the United States House of Representatives
  United States House of Representatives
  The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
  
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