Elba Otero de Jové | |
Order: | Mayor of Arecibo |
Term Start: | 1969 |
Term End: | 1970 |
Predecessor: | Darío Goitía |
Successor: | Pablo E. Méndez Cabrero |
Office2: | Member of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico from the At-large district |
Term Start2: | 1970 |
Term End2: | 1972 |
Birth Date: | February 20, 1918 |
Birth Place: | Arecibo, Puerto Rico |
Death Place: | July 17, 1995 |
Alma Mater: | University of Puerto Rico (BA) New York University (MA) |
Party: | New Progressive Party (PNP) |
Elba Otero de Jové was a Puerto Rican female politician from the New Progressive Party (PNP) who served as mayor of Arecibo, Puerto Rico and an at-large member of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Puerto Rico and a Master of Art from New York University.
She was elected as mayor of Arecibo at the 1968 general elections. in 1970 after the death of her brother Rubén Otero Bosco who was the Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico the New Progressive Party nominated her to fill the vacancy of an At-large position. She was affiliated to the Republican Party and was a member of the National Federation of Republican Women.[1]