Carlos Juan Cintrón Explained

Carlos Juan Cintrón
Order1:	124th
Office1:	Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
Term Start1:	1957
Term End1:	1961
Predecessor1:	José Dapena Laguna
Successor1:	Juan Luis Boscio
Birth Date:	6 September 1918^[1]
Birth Place:	Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico
Death Place:	Ponce, Puerto Rico
Nationality:	Puerto Rican
Party:	PPD^[2]
Spouse:	1st: Josefina Fernandez Reyes 2nd: Rosa Gonzalez
Children:	1st marriage: Carlos Juan, Rosa Margarita, Lillian, Enrique, Luis, and Lombardo. 2nd marriage: Brenda
Profession:	Politician

Carlos Juan Cintrón Figueroa^[3] (6 September 1918^[4]  - 5 May 1998) was mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico from 1957 to 1961. However, in year 1960,^{[5] [6]} during a period while Cintron held his post as mayor, Helvetia Nicole filled in as interim mayor.^[7] After his tenure as mayor, Cintrón was president of Puerto Rico's Unión de Trabajadores de Acero (United Steelworkers of America).^[8]

Personal life

Cintron Figueroa was born in Barrio Callabos, Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico.^[9] He was the son of Luis Cintron Rodriguez and Rosa Maria Figueroa Nazario. He had a brother, 2 years older than him, named Carlos Luis.^{[10] [11]} Cintrón Figueroa married Josefina Fernandez Reyes on 22 May 1936,^[12] and fathered seven children (Carlos Juan, Rosa Margarita, Lillian, Enrique, Luis, and Lombardo), in this first marriage. Josefina Fernandez Reyes was Ponce's First Lady during Cintron's tenure as mayor. After his divorce from Fernandez Reyes, he married Rosa Gonzalez from which relationship his seventh child, Brenda, was born.

Carlos Juan Cintron died on May 5, 1998, in Ponce, Puerto Rico at age 79.

See also

• List of Puerto Ricans
• List of mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico

Further reading

• Fay Fowlie de Flores. Ponce, Perla del Sur: Una Bibliográfica Anotada. Second Edition. 1997. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Universidad de Puerto Rico en Ponce. p. 173. Item 880.
• Carnaval de Ponce: programa. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 196x? - . Includes photos. (Archivo Histórico Municipal de Ponce, AHMP; Colegio Universitario Tecnológico de Ponce, CUTPO)

Notes and References

1. http://www.ancientfaces.com/person/carlos-j-cintron/91001131 Carlos J. Cintron (1918-1998).
2. http://www.travelponce.com/Datos-sobre-Ponce.html Datos sobre Ponce: Alcaldes de Ponce (1941-2012).
3. Carmelo Rosario Natal. Ponce En Su Historia Moderna: 1945-2002. Published by Secretaría de Cultura y Turismo of the Government of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 2003. p. 54.
4. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60901&h=35272561&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PDj83&_phstart=successSource Carlos Juan Cintron in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007.
5. Fay Fowlie de Flores. Ponce, Perla del Sur: Una Bibliográfica Anotada. Second Edition. 1997. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Universidad de Puerto Rico en Ponce. p. 22. Item 111.
6. United States. 86th Congress. House of Representatives Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Hearing before a Special Subcommittee on Territorial and Insular Affairs...H. R. 9234, a Bill to Provide for Amendments to the Compact between the People of Puerto Rico and the United States, and Related Legislation. Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1960. (Colegio Universitario Tecnológico de Ponce, CUTPO)
7. http://www.wapa.tv/noticias.php?nid=20080809132542# Históricas las elecciones en Ponce: Una candidata a alcaldesa, un nuevo partido local y los aspirantes a la poltrona municipal no nacieron en la Perla del Sur.
8. http://www.jrt.pr.gov/DecisionesOrdenes/Documents/1965/Junio/CA-3020%20(D-392).pdf Buena Vista Dairy, Inc. Y Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO: Decision Numero 392, Caso Numero CA-3020. Resuelto en 23 de Junio de 1965.
9. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6061/4442162_01029?pid=59397726&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D6061%26h%3D59397726%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DPDj84%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PDj84&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true 1920 United States Federal Census for Carlos Juan Cintron Y Figueroa > Puerto Rico > Juana Diaz > Callabos > District 0697.
10. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6224/4661358_00231?pid=110337096&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D6224%26h%3D110337096%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DPDj86%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PDj86&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true 1930 United States Federal Census for Carlos Juan Cintron, Puerto Rico, Juana Diaz, Collores, District, 0010.
11. http://www.ancientfaces.com/person/carlos-j-cintron/91001131 Carlos J. Cintron (1918-1998).
12. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9100/004561556_00728?pid=3766751&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D9100%26h%3D3766751%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DPDj89%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PDj89&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true Puerto Rico, Civil Registrations, 1885-2001 for Carlos J Cintrón Figueroa: Matrimonios (Marriages), Juana Díaz, Matrimonios 1931-1948.