User:Marine 69-71/Politicians

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Politicians






  • José S. Alegría - Poet, writer, lawyer and politician. Alegría was a founding member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and president of the political organization from 1928 to 1930.


  • María Luisa Arcelay - First woman in Puerto Rico and in all of Latin America to be elected to a government legislative body.


  • Carmen E. Arroyo - First Puerto Rican woman elected to any state assembly, chair New York Hispanic Legislative Caucus.









  • Maria Colón Sánchez - Colón Sánchez was an activist and politician who in 1988, became the first Hispanic woman elected to the Connecticut General Assembly.



  • José M. Dávila Monsanto - Senator, politician and lawyer, Dávila Monsanto was a co-founder of the "Partido Popular Democrático de Puerto Rico".





  • Dr. Leopoldo Figueroa - Co-founder of the "Independence Association", one of three political organizations which merged to form the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Figueroa, had changed political ideals and in 1948, was a member of the Partido Estadista Puertorriqueño (Puerto Rican Statehood Party). That year, he was the only member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives who did not belong to the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico PPD, who opposed the PPD's approval of the infamous Law 53, also known as "Puerto Rico's Gag Law" and "Ley de La Mordaza", which violated the civil rights of those who favored Puerto Rican Independence.


  • Oscar Garcia Rivera, Sr. - Former New York State Assemblyman, in 1937 he became the first Puerto Rican to be elected to public office in the continental United States and in 1956, he also became the first Puerto Rican to be nominated as the Republican candidate for Justice of the City Court.



  • Juan Marí Bras - Founder of the "Movimiento Pro Independencia" and the "Modern Puerto Rican Socialist Party".


  • Rosendo Matienzo Cintrón - Matienzo Cintrón was a political leader who in his early political career favored Puerto Rican statehood and later became an advocate for Puerto Rico's independence and founder of the Independence Party of Puerto Rico.


  • Antonio Mattei Lluberas- Leader of the second and last major revolt against Spanish colonial rule in Puerto Rico in what is known as the Intentona de Yauco of 1897. Mattei Lluberas served as Mayor of Yauco from 1904 to 1906.



  • Tony Méndez - First native-born Puerto Rican to become a district leader of a major political party in New York City.








  • Julio Vizcarrondo - Politician who played an instrumental role in the development and passage of the Moret Law which in 1873 abolished slavery in Puerto Rico. Vizcarrondo was also the founder of the Protestant movement in the Iberian Peninsula in the 19th century.





Notes:

  1. ^ The article of Teófilo José Jaime María Le Guillou was once a one sentence "stub". I wrote the entire content of the current on December 20, 2008 and have updated it since then



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