Rafael Picó Santiago (December 29, 1912 – May 4, 1998) was one of Governor Luis Muñoz Marín's closest advisors.
The islands' first pro-statehood governor, Don Luis A. Ferré and President Richard M. Nixon, in 1970 created a joint United States-Puerto Rico Ad Hoc Committee to study the possibility of granting Puerto Ricans the right to vote for President as a means of building upon Puerto Rico's territorial relationship with the United States.
They appointed pro-status quo PDP member Rafael Picó to co-chair the Ad Hoc Committee.
[2] Among other family members, he was survived by his daughter Isabell, an attorney married to Federico Hernández Denton, who subsequently retired as Chief Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court.
The family donated his papers to the University of Puerto Rico's Graduate School of Planning in 2015.