Herman Badillo, the first Congressman born in Puerto Rico to represent a district in the continental United States, was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico on August 21, 1929. After a tuberculosis epidemic ...

Herman Badillo, a Bronx politician who became the first person born in Puerto Rico to become a U.S. congressman, died Wednesday morning. He was 85. The office of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.

Republican bigwigs wish he’d go away, but Herman Badillo is doing the party a favor by running for mayor. The New York Republican Party, long averse to primaries, has tried to muscle Herman Badillo ...

Herman Badillo is too much of a gentleman to use his speech accepting the Manhattan Institute’s Alexander Hamilton Award last week to attack the Department of Education over the half-hearted ...

It’s hard to keep an ambitious ex-politician down. On the heels of his proposal for a massively oversized residential development on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Herman Badillo has injected himself ...