Danny López Soto

Danny López Soto
Member of the Puerto Rico Senate
from the Carolina district
In office
1976–1984
Member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives from the 2nd District
In office
1969–1976
Preceded byErnesto Gandía
Succeeded byJaime Rosario Báez
Personal details
BornMarch 13, 1944
Utuado, Puerto Rico
DiedAugust 16, 2011 (aged 67)
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Political partyNew Progressive Party (PNP)
SpouseMerilyn Pujals
ChildrenDanny
Merilyn
Alvin
Alma materUniversity of Puerto Rico School of Law (JD)
ProfessionPolitician, Senator

Danny López Soto (1944 – August 16, 2011) was a legislator in Puerto Rico.

Born in Utuado in 1944 to Pablo López and Mariana Soto.[1] His family moved to the Villa Palmeras neighborhood of San Juan in 1950. After studying high school at Luis Llorens Torres and República de Perú High Schools, he obtained his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law. He married Merilyn Pujals in the mid-1960s.

A pro-statehood activist since an early age, in the 1960s he rebelled against the leadership of Statehood Republican Party of Puerto Rico president Miguel A. García Méndez and, in 1967, helped found the New Progressive Party or New Party for Progress (NPP), which would win the governorship and control of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives in 1968. He served as a member of that legislative body from 1969 to 1976. From 1977 to 1984 he served as a member of the Senate of Puerto Rico from 1977 to 1984.

López Soto died in San Juan on August 16, 2011, at 67 years of age after a long illness.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Historias Políticas on PNP.org
  2. ^ Fallece uno de los fundadores del PNP[permanent dead link‍] on El Vocero (August 16, 2011)
  3. ^ Gobernador lamenta muerte de Danny López Soto on Primera Hora (August 16, 2011)
Senate of Puerto Rico
Preceded by Minority Whip of the Puerto Rico Senate
1981 		Succeeded by


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