Tomás Pérez Guerra Explained

Tomás Pérez Guerra
Order1:	22nd
Office1:	Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
Term Start1:	1 January 1826^[1]
Term End1:	31 December 1826^[2]
Predecessor1:	José Ortíz de la Renta
Successor1:	Julián Villodas
Birth Date:	ca. 1766
Death Date:	ca. 1846

Tomás Pérez Guerra^{[3] [4]} (ca. 1766 – ca. 1846) was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1 January 1826^[5] to 31 December 1826.^[6]

Mayoral term

On 31 August 1826, during the midst of mayor Pérez Guerra's mayoral term, a slave revolt in Ponce against the slave owners in Ponce was discovered and the slaves were condemned to death. The Provincial Military Governor of Puerto Rico, Miguel de la Torre, traveled to Ponce to witness the mass shooting. The 11 slaves shot dead were named as follows: Francisco Jose, Federico, Benito, Pablo Viejo, Oguis, Jose Felix (from Barrio El Quemado), Faustino (also from Barrio El Quemado), Francisco Antonio, Don Esteban Miguel Roque's Francisco Antonio and Manuel, and Don Wedestein's Inés.^[7] There are no Acts in the Municipality for the period from 1824 to 1834, affecting the period while Pérez Guerra was mayor.^[8]

See also

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

References

1. Eduardo Neumann Gandia. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 276.
2. Eduardo Neumann Gandia. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 276.
3. Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. 1913. p. 166.
4. https://enciclopediapr.org/encyclopedia/municipio-de-ponce/#1465331383974-fc51e170-c3cd Municipio de Ponce: Alcaldes en su Historia.
5. Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 276.
6. Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 276.
7. Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 261-261.
8. Mariano Vidal Armstrong. Ponce: Notas para su Historia. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Second Edition 1986. p. 79.

Further reading

• Ramon Marin. Las Fiestas Populares de Ponce. Editorial Universidad de Puerto Rico. 1994.

External links

• Guardia Civil española (c. 1898) (Includes military ranks in 1880s Spanish Empire.)