David Laporte Explained

David Laporte
Order:	43rd
Office:	Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
Term Start:	1 January 1847
Term End:	30 June 1847^[1]
Successor1:	Francisco Romero
Birth Date:	c. 1787
Death Date:	c. 1857
Profession:	Hacendado^[2]

David Laporte (ca. 1787  - ca. 1857) was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico,^[3] from 1 January 1847 – 30 June 1847.^[4]

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Eduardo Neumann Gandia. "Verdadera y Autentica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. p.276.
2. Francisco Antonio Scarano. Sugar and slavery in Puerto Rico: the municipality of Ponce, 1815-1849. Appendix A: "On the National Origin of the Hacendados." Table II. "Hacendados in 1845." Page 445. Ph. D. Thesis. Columbia University. 1978. Citing Archivo General de Puerto Rico, Records of the Spanish Governors of Puerto Rico [formerly, Record Group # 186 at the National Archives, Washington, D.C.], Political and Civil Affairs, entry 9, box 14, "Lista...de los vecinos blancos...") and Archivo Histórico de Ponce (c. 52-A, leg. 54, exp. 1, Padrón de Población, 1838.)
3. http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/print_version.cfm?ref=09012901 Ponce.
4. Eduardo Neumann Gandia. "Verdadera y Autentica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. p.276.