Guillermo Vivas Valdivieso

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Vivas and the second or maternal family name is Valdivieso.
Guillermo Vivas Valdivieso
Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
In office
1925–1928
Preceded by Abelardo Aguilú, Jr.
Succeeded by Emilio Fagot
Personal details
Born 1881[1]
Ponce, Puerto Rico[2]
Nationality Puerto Rican
Profession politician

Guillermo Vivas Valdivieso (1881 – ca. 1940) was a Puerto Rican journalist, politician and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico from 1925 to 1928.

Early years

Vivas Valdivieso was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1881.[3] He had little formal education and starting to work at 12 years old for Olimpio Otero at his store, Bazar Otero. He later became a legal assistant for a law office, and subsequently a bookkeeper for seven years.[4]

Journalist

At age 14, Vivas Valdivieso founded, together with Alberto Marin and Eduardo Marin, the political autonomist newspaper, La Razon.[5] Subsequently he also became the owner and director of the "El Dia" newspaper during the time of the Ponce Massacre at the hands of the Insular Police under the governorship of U.S.-appointed Gov. Blanton Winship.[6][7] He had purchased the paper from its founder, Guillermo V. Cintrón, in August 1928.[8]

Mayoral term

Vivas Valdivieso is recorded to have been the facilitator of the building of "Modern Ponce". During his administration, he secured a municipal loan of $1.25 million for city-wide improvements that would turn the municipality of Ponce, come the administration of his successor Emilio Fagot, into the city it became during the rest of the 19th century. Some of the improvements made were included the paving of so far dirt city streets, the creation of the city's sewerage system, the enlargement of the old Acueducto, the repair of rural roads, facilitating the traffic of rural goods into the city market.[9]

Honors

He is recognized as one of Ponce's most accomplished journalists at Ponce's Park for Illustrious Ponce Citizens.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Guillermo A. Baralt. La Historia de El Nuevo Dia (1909-2000): "Al servicio de mi tierra". Page 119. Fundación El Nuevo Dia. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2002. ISBN 1-881720-82-9.
  2. ↑ Guillermo A. Baralt. La Historia de El Nuevo Dia (1909-2000): "Al servicio de mi tierra". Page 119. Fundación El Nuevo Dia. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2002. ISBN 1-881720-82-9.
  3. ↑ Guillermo A. Baralt. La Historia de El Nuevo Dia (1909-2000): "Al servicio de mi tierra". Page 119. Fundación El Nuevo Dia. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2002. ISBN 1-881720-82-9.
  4. ↑ Guillermo A. Baralt. La Historia de El Nuevo Dia (1909-2000): "Al servicio de mi tierra". Page 119. Fundación El Nuevo Dia. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2002. ISBN 1-881720-82-9.
  5. ↑ Guillermo A. Baralt. La Historia de El Nuevo Dia (1909-2000): "Al servicio de mi tierra". Page 119. Fundación El Nuevo Dia. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2002. ISBN 1-881720-82-9.
  6. ↑ Director of El Dia newspaper Retrieved August 15, 2009.
  7. ↑ Jose Enrique Ayoroa Santaliz. La Masacre de Ponce: Breve relacion de hechos y algunos de sus personajes. Ponce Massacre Museum. March 2011.
  8. ↑ Guillermo A. Baralt. La Historia de El Nuevo Dia (1909-2000): "Al servicio de mi tierra". Page 119. Fundación El Nuevo Dia. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2002. ISBN 1-881720-82-9.
  9. ↑ Ponce: A Historical Sketch Juan Braschi. In, "The Book of Porto Rico. XIX: Principal Cities."]Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Page 1069. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  10. ↑ Journalism. TravelPonce. Retrieved 18 June 2012.

See also

Political offices
Preceded by
Abelardo Aguilú, Jr.		 Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
1925–1928 		Succeeded by
Emilio Fagot
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