Salvador de Vives

Salvador de Vives Rodó
32nd Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
In office
1 January 1840 – 1 January 1842
Preceded by Juan de Dios Conde
Succeeded by José Ortíz de la Renta
37th Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
In office
1844 – 24 November 1845
Preceded by Bonifacio Martinez de Banos
Succeeded by Antonio Corro
Personal details
Born 1784
Vilobí d'Onyar,[lower-alpha 1] Catalonia[1]
Died 24 November 1845
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Spouse(s) Isabel Diaz[2]
Profession Politician

Salvador de Vives Rodó (1784 – 24 November 1845[3]) was a Puerto Rican politician and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico from 1 January 1840 to 1 January 1842[4] and then again from 1844 to 1845. He was the son of Quirse Vives and Ana Maria Rodo.[5] He was a wealthy coffee plantation owner who established the now historic Hacienda Buena Vista.[6] Under de Vives' administration as mayor, the now historic Ponce City Hall was built. De Vives trusted the design of City Hall to prominent architect Francisco Gil Capó.[7] The trees in Plaza Las Delicias are due to De Vives' direction.[8] He also named the two central plazas in downtown Ponce "Plaza Las Delicias"; up to that point the two plazas were called Plaza Mayor (which came to be known as Plaza Degetau) and Paseo de la Alameda (which was later renamed Plaza Munoz Rivera). [9]

Legacy

One of Ponce's main thoroughfares (Calle Vives) is named after him. "The street was named by proclamation of the city council in 1863."[10]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Socorro Giron states his tomb in Ponce has an inscription stating he was born in Gerona, Catalonia (Socorro Giron. Ponce, el teatro La Perla y La Campana de la Almudaina. Ponce Municipal Government. 1992. p.31.)

References

  1. ↑ Teresa Abelló i Güell (1 January 1998). La resposta catalana a la crisi i la pèrdua colonial de 1898. Generalitat de Catalunya.
  2. ↑ Buena Vista: life and work on a Puerto Rican hacienda, 1833-1904. Guillermo A. Baralt. 1999. University of North Carolina Press. Page 7. Retrieved 3 December 2012
  3. ↑ Socorro Giron. Ponce, el teatro La Perla y La Campana de la Almudaina. Ponce Municipal Government. 1992. page 31.
  4. ↑ Socorro Giron. Ponce, el teatro La Perla y La Campana de la Almudaina. Ponce Municipal Government. 1992. p.26.
  5. ↑ Buena Vista: life and work on a Puerto Rican hacienda, 1833-1904. By Guillermo A. Baralt. 1999. University of North Carolina Press. Page 150. Retrieved February 22, 2010.
  6. ↑ Buena Vista: Life and Work on a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904 By Guillermo A. Baralt
  7. ↑ Casa Alcaldia
  8. ↑ Buena Vista: life and work on a Puerto Rican hacienda, 1833-1904 By Guillermo A. Baralt. Page 12.
  9. ↑ Neysa Rodriguez Deynes, Rafael J. Torres Torres, and Carlos Aneiro Perez. Brevario Sobre la Historia de Ponce y sus Principales Lugares de Interes. Published by Secretaría de Cultura y Turismo of the Government of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 1st edition. 1991. p. 105.
  10. ↑ Buena Vista: life and work on a Puerto Rican hacienda, 1833-1904. Page 81. Guillermo A. Baralt. Fideicomisio de Conservacion de Puerto Rico. 1988. Retrieved 13 July 2011.

See also

Political offices
Preceded by
Juan de Dios Conde		 Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
1 January 1840 - 1 January 1842		 Succeeded by
José Ortíz de la Renta
Preceded by
José Ortíz de la Renta		 Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
1844 - 24 November 1845		 Succeeded by
Antonio Corro
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