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José de Diego, "The Father of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement". De Diego was then elected to the House of Delegates, the only locally elected body of government allowed by the U.S., and which De Diego presided over from 1904 to 1917. [52] Caridad de la Luz a.k.a. La Bruja, poet, playwright, actress and activist.
Leon Lopez (born 30 August 1979 in Liverpool) is a British actor, television and film director, singer-songwriter and occasional model, best known for playing the role of Jerome Johnson in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside from 1998 to 2002. He also played the role of Linford Short in the BBC's EastEnders in 2016.
Juan Ponce de León II, 28th governor of Puerto Rico, grandson of the first governor, and the first born in the island to become governor.. In the governor's absence, or if the governor dies or is unable to perform the executive duties, the Secretary of State of Puerto Rico takes control of the executive position, as acting governor during a temporary absence or inability, and as governor in ...
Juan Ponce de León II, the first native Puerto Rican governor of Puerto Rico, was the father of Juan Ponce de León y Loayza. In his trip from Spain to Puerto Rico in August 1577, Bishop Diego de Salamanca, not finding a commercial ship heading to Puerto Rico at the time, boarded a Spanish warship headed to Mexico, which dropped him off in the southern coast of Puerto Rico at Guanica.
1597–1604 Diego Fernández de Velasco y Enríquez de Almansa; 1604–1612 Carlos de Luna y Arellano; 1612–1617 Antonio de Figueroa y Bravo; 1617–1619 Francisco Ramírez Briceño; 1619–1620 The Alcaldes of Mérida; 1620–1621 Arias de Losada y Taboada; 1621–1628 Diego de Cardenas y Balda; 1628–1630 Juan de Vargas Machuca
Juan Hernández López (March 1859 – May 17, 1944) was a Puerto Rican politician, senator, and attorney. He was a member of the Senate from 1921 to 1933, and served as its President pro tempore from 1921 to 1924, under Antonio R. Barceló .
Juan Luis Hernández Fuertes (born 24 June 1949) is a Spanish former football manager who last managed Orión. [1] Early life. He was born in 1949 in Madrid, Spain. [2]
Juan Vázquez de Coronado was born in Salamanca, Spain, the out of wedlock son of a prominent nobleman, Gonzalo Vásquez de Coronado y Luján (c. 1500 – Valladolid, 1540), sixth Lord of Coquilla and la Torre de Juan Vásquez, perpetual Alguacil-Mayor of the Royal Audiencia (i.e., appellate court) of Valladolid, [a] by an extramatrimonial relationship with Catalina de Anaya, from whom there ...