18 Facts About Eduardo Bhatia

Eduardo Bhatia Gautier was born on May 16,1964 and is a Puerto Rican attorney and politician.

Eduardo Bhatia was born in San Salvador, El Salvador on May 16,1964.

Eduardo Bhatia remained in Puerto Rico and married Carmen Gautier Mayoral in 1961, a political science professor at the University of Puerto Rico and niece-in-law of Felisa Rincon de Gautier.

Eduardo Bhatia's brother, Andres Bhatia, is a practicing oncologist in Gainesville, Florida, and his sister, Lisa Bhatia, is an assistant US attorney at the San Juan District office of the US Attorney.

Eduardo Bhatia Toledo did his secondary studies at Colegio San Jose.

In May 1986, Eduardo Bhatia was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study law, economics and politics in Santiago, Chile, for one year.

Eduardo Bhatia graduated from Stanford Law School in June 1990, where he founded and edited the Stanford Journal of Law and Policy, an academic publication with an emphasis on the development of new laws and public policy.

Eduardo Bhatia is admitted to practice law in Florida, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico.

From 1991 to 1992, he was the Chief of Staff for Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico Jaime Fuster in Washington, DC From 1993 to 1995, Eduardo Bhatia worked as a lawyer for the San Juan-based law firm McConnell Valdes.

In 1996, at the age of 32, Eduardo Bhatia was elected Senator at Large by the Popular Democratic Party, becoming the youngest Puerto Rican senator in that four-year term and one of the youngest in the history of the Senate of Puerto Rico.

Eduardo Bhatia sought consensus, joining PNP senators in co-sponsoring legislation.

Eduardo Bhatia managed PRFAA's staff in the areas of Government Affairs, Federal Grants, Communications, Outreach and Public Affairs and Community Affairs, to carry out the agency's mission of advancing the well-being of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and of Puerto Ricans in the United States.

Eduardo Bhatia had been working in special projects that will help increase economic growth in Puerto Rico's rural areas.

Eduardo Bhatia resigned to the position on February 15,2008, to run again for Senator.

Eduardo Bhatia was elected as an official Senate candidate in the PPD primary on March 9,2008, becoming the second most voted person of all the pre-candidates for Senate.

At the 2008 general elections, Eduardo Bhatia won one of only five Senate seats obtained by his party.

Eduardo Bhatia was reelected once more in the 2016 General Election.

Eduardo Bhatia's mother, Carmen, was a Puerto Rican while his father, Mohinder, was of Punjabi Sikh heritage hailing from Mirpur who migrated to India in 1947.