Enrique Rodríguez Negrón
{{short description|Member of Senate of Puerto Rico}}
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| state_senate = Puerto Rico
| district = at-large
| term_start = 1989
| term_end = 2001
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| birth_date = July 14, 1933
| birth_place = Toa Alta, Puerto Rico
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| death_date = November 24, 2022 (age 89)
| death_place = Green Cove Springs, Florida
| party = New Progressive Party (PNP)
| spouse = Margarita Rodríguez
| children = Maureen, Richard, Derrick and Marlene
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| occupation = Politician, Senator, Attorney, Entrepreneur, Statesman, and Veteran.
| profession = Attorney
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| branch = 20px United States Air Force
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Enrique Rodríguez Negrón (born July 14, 1933, in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico) served as a member of the Senate of Puerto Rico from 1989 to 2001.{{cite web|url=http://electionspuertorico.org/1992/candidatos/senadores.html|title=Senadores 1992|website=electionspuertorico.org}} From 1993 to 2001, he chaired the Senate Tourism Committee and partnered with then executive director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company Luis Fortuño in advancing the tourism and economic legislative agenda of the administration of Governor Pedro Rosselló. During Senate Judiciary Committee hearings regarding the 1978 Cerro Maravilla events, Rodríguez Negrón was an outspoken defender of former Governor Carlos Romero Barceló.
Prior to his legislative service, Rodríguez Negrón served as a Superior Court judge, as President of the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company, as well as State Director for the federal Farmers Home Administration, one of a few Puerto Ricans to have served in prominent positions in all three branches of government, as well as in the Federal government.
Enrique Rodríguez Negrón was an attorney, judge developer and a Korean War era United States Air Force veteran. He died on November 24, 2022, in Green Cove Springs, Florida, at age 89. He was buried at the Jacksonville National Cemetery.{{Cite web |url=http://sunsite.utk.edu/FINS/Doctrines_Injustice/Fins-DI-08.htm |title=Complaint |access-date=2009-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612073401/http://sunsite.utk.edu/FINS/Doctrines_Injustice/Fins-DI-08.htm |archive-date=2010-06-12 |url-status=dead }}
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Category:Members of the Senate of Puerto Rico
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Category:United States Air Force airmen
Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico
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