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Author of "Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce." Andrés Ramos Mattei, sugar industry historian Said to be "the undisputed authority" on the subject of Puerto Rico's sugar industry. Gladys Esther Tormes González, historian Head archivist and longest-serving archivist at the "Archivo Historico de Ponce".
Julio J. Henna (24 May 1848 – 2 February 1924) was a Puerto Rican physician and political figure. Henna participated in the founding of the Puerto Rico Section of the Cuban Revolutionary Party in New York as part of the section's faction that supported the annexation of Puerto Rico to the United States.
Marín moved to the city of Ponce during the tumultuous years of the late 1860s, [12] joining Manuel Gregorio Tavárez and Manuel Zeno Gandia. [13]On 21 May 1874, Marín founded his first newspaper "El Avisador." [14] In May 1875 he published his second paper in Ponce, "La Crónica de Ponce", later renamed "La Crónica". [15]
This is a list of mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico's southern economic center, the island's second largest [1] and second most important city. [2] [3]From 1692 to 1840, the office of mayor [a] in Ponce was filled either by local hacendados or by military officers appointed by the governor, depending on whether the political situation on Spain at the time was that of a constitutional or an ...
Rondón Martinez is best known for having inaugurated, in 1843, Ponce's old cemetery (Viejo Cementerio de Ponce) on Calle Simon de la Torre. This cemetery, also called Antiguo Cementerio de Ponce, became the Panteón Nacional Román Baldorioty de Castro. [2] Rondon Martínez was the first person to be buried in the cemetery. [3]
The first permanent ayuntamiento was established in Ponce while Conde was mayoring the city, by the Provincial Governor Miguel de la Torre. The new ayuntamiento did not meet in a public building, as it is the case now (2019), but instead met at the house of a prominent local citizen, Domingo Arévalo .
Luis Manuel Irizarry Pabón was born on 12 November 1958 [3] in Ponce, Puerto Rico. His parents were Félix Irizarry and Carmen Lydia Pabón. [3] [5] A graduate of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, [3] [5] Irizarry Pabón was an internal medicine physician prior to becoming Ponce's mayor-elect in November 2020. [6]
María Eloisa Meléndez Altieri (born December 26, 1951) also known as Mayita, is a Puerto Rican politician who served as the mayor of the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico, [1] from 2009 to 2021. [2] Meléndez Altieri was elected during the Puerto Rican general elections of 2008, [3] becoming the first woman elected to the office in Ponce's