Conventional Long Name: | Insular Government of Porto Rico |
Common Name: | Puerto Rico |
Status: | Unincorporated and organized United States territory |
Date Start: | April 12, |
Year Start: | 1900 |
Event End: | Commonwealth constitution is ratified |
Date End: | July 25, |
Year End: | 1952 |
Event1: | Jones–Shafroth Act |
Date Event1: | March 2, 1917 |
Event2: | Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act of 1950 |
Date Event2: | July 3, 1950 |
Event3: | 1951 Puerto Rican Law 600 referendum |
Date Event3: | June 4, 1951 |
Event4: | 1952 Puerto Rican constitutional referendum |
Date Event4: | March 3, 1952 |
P1: | United States Military Government of Porto Rico of Porto Rico |
Flag P1: | Flag of the United States (1896–1908).svg |
S1: | Puerto Rico of Puerto Rico |
Flag S1: | Flag of Puerto Rico.svg |
Flag Type: | Flag |
Anthems: | "Hail, Columbia" (until 1931)
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Capital: | San Juan |
Largest City: | capital |
Government Type: | Devolved presidential dependency |
Title Leader: | President |
Leader1: | William McKinley |
Year Leader1: | 1900–1901 |
Leader2: | Theodore Roosevelt |
Year Leader2: | 1901–1909 |
Leader3: | William Howard Taft |
Year Leader3: | 1909–1913 |
Leader4: | Woodrow Wilson |
Year Leader4: | 1913–1921 |
Leader5: | Warren G. Harding |
Year Leader5: | 1921–1923 |
Leader6: | Calvin Coolidge |
Year Leader6: | 1923–1929 |
Leader7: | Herbert Hoover |
Year Leader7: | 1929–1933 |
Leader8: | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Year Leader8: | 1933–1945 |
Leader9: | Harry S. Truman |
Year Leader9: | 1945–1952 |
Title Representative: | Governor of Puerto Rico |
Representative1: | Charles Herbert Allen |
Year Representative1: | 1900–1901 |
Representative2: | Luis Muñoz Marín |
Year Representative2: | 1949–1952 |
Legislature: | Legislative Assembly |
Upper House: | Senate |
Lower House: | House of Representatives |
Drives On: | right |
The Insular Government of Porto Rico[1] (Spanish; Castilian: Gobierno Insular de Puerto Rico), known as the Insular Government of Puerto Rico[2] [3] [4] after May 17, 1932,[5] was an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States that was established when the Foraker Act became effective on April 12, 1900. The Insular Government was preceded by the United States Military Government of Porto Rico and was followed by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
The term "insular" refers to the fact that the government operated under the authority of the Bureau of Insular Affairs. The Philippines also had an insular government at this time. From 1901 to 1922, the U.S. Supreme Court wrestled with the constitutional status of these governments in the Insular Cases.[6]
The Foraker Act was superseded on March 2, 1917, by the Jones–Shafroth Act, which granted U.S. citizenship to anyone born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11, 1899. On July 25, 1952, Puerto Rico became a commonwealth after the ratification of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.[7]