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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".
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 ...
Baseball players from Ponce, Puerto Rico (28 P) Pages in category "Sportspeople from Ponce, Puerto Rico" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
Carlos Juan Garay Villamil (b. Ponce, Puerto Rico; 12 April 1881) was a long-serving coachman in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and Ponce's last one.Together with his horse-drawn carriage, he is considered an icon of the city of Ponce. [1]
Ponce (US: / ˈ p ɔː n s eɪ, ˈ p oʊ n-/ PAWN-say, POHN-, UK: / ˈ p ɒ n-/ PON-, Spanish: ⓘ) is a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico. [25] The most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, Ponce was founded on August 12, 1692 [note 1] [26] [20] [27] [17] and is named after Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, [28] the great-grandson of Spanish ...
Salvador de Vives Rodó (1784 – 24 November 1845 [7]), also known as Salvador Vives, was a Puerto Rican hacendado and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1 January 1840 to 5 January 1842 [8] [9] and then again from 1 January 1844 to 24 November 1845. His son, Carlos Vives, was a member of the Ponce Municipal Assembly.
Juan Prats (ca. 1800 – ca. 1870) was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, twice in 1849. [9] He was a landowner, owning—among others—Hacienda La Matilde, in Ponce. [10] He was also an appraiser, best known for the contentious appraisal of the plot of land where the Ponce City Hall was built.
Ponce's first [b] mayor was Don Pedro Sánchez de Mathos, in 1692, appointed by governor Juan Robles de Lorenzana. Ponce elected its first mayor (as well as its first Municipal Assembly) on 20 September 1812. [3] Its first elected mayor was José Ortiz de la Renta, who took office in 1812. Ortiz de la Renta occupied the post of mayor on eight ...