Julián Villodas Explained

Julián Villodas
Order:23rd
Office:Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
Term Start:1 January 1827[1]
Term End:31 December 1830[2]
Predecessor:Tomás Pérez Guerra
Successor:Tomás de Renovales
Occupation:Teniente a guerra
Profession:Lieutenant colonel[3]

Julián H. Villodas was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1 January 1827[4] – 31 December 1830.[5] He performed as a teniente a guerra.[6]

Mayoral term

Villodas is best known for serving concurrently as mayor of the nearby town of Guayama for four years (from 1830 to 1833) while he also served as mayor of Ponce.[7] Villodas was a sugar cane plantation owner in the municipality of Guayama, which may explain why he served there as mayor.[8]

There are no Acts in the Municipality of Ponce for the period 1824 to 1834, affecting the period while he was mayor as well, so little more is known about Julián Villodas's mayoral term.[9] However, in April 1835, while Villodas was still mayor of Ponce, the rebuilding of the Ponce parroquial church was started. Councilmen Geronimo Rabassa, Olegario González and Jose Maria Ramirez made up the building commission.[10]

See also

References

  1. Encyclopedia Puerto Rico.
  2. Encyclopedia Puerto Rico.
  3. https://memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/lhbpr/6064d/6064d.pdf Memorias goegráficas, históricas, económicas, y estadísticas de la isla de Puerto-Rico.
  4. https://enciclopediapr.org/encyclopedia/municipio-de-ponce/#1465331383974-fc51e170-c3cd Municipio de Ponce: Alcaldes en su Historia.
  5. https://enciclopediapr.org/encyclopedia/municipio-de-ponce/#1465331383974-fc51e170-c3cd Municipio de Ponce: Alcaldes en su Historia.
  6. Eduardo Neumann Gandia. Verdadera y Autentica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. 1913. p.275.
  7. http://www.losbrujosdeguayama.com/alcaldes_en_su_historia.htm Mayors of Guayama.
  8. https://books.google.com/books?id=quXtGrIOlRsC&pg=PA136 Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-century Puerto Rico
  9. Mariano Vidal Armstrong. Ponce: Notas para su Historia. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Second Edition 1986. p. 79.
  10. Eduardo Neumann Gandia. Verdadera y Autentica Historia de Ponce. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. 1913. p. 29.