Ulpiano Colóm

Ulpiano Colóm
Mayor Ulpiano Colóm y Ferrer
101st Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
In office
1898–1898
Preceded by Luis Gautier
Succeeded by José Lloréns Echevarría
Personal details
Born 3 April 1861
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Nationality Puerto Rican
Profession Politician

Ulpiano Colóm y Ferrer[lower-alpha 1] (b. 3 April 1861 - ca. 1920) was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, during part of 1898.

Early years

He was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on 3 April 1861.[1]

Political life

Colóm y Ferrer became mayor of Ponce on 8 July 1898. He was the sitting mayor of Ponce at the time when the Americans took possession of the city on July 28, 1898.[2] Upon the American invasion, Colom tendered his resignation, but it was not accepted by the American Major General James H. Wilson, who instead extended Colóm's jurisdiction to additional adjacent towns as the American troops advanced.[3]

He was an attorney, a member of the House of Delegates of Puerto Rico, a councilman for the municipality of Ponce, an assistant in the Ponce Fire Department, a director and vice-president of the Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño, and a municipal judge, amongst the various other positions he held.[1]

In Ponce there is a street in Urbanizacion Las Delicias of Barrio Magueyes named after him.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Register of Porto Rico for 1903: Prepared and Compiled Under the Direction of the Honorable Charles Hartzell, Secretary of Porto Rico. October 1903. Louis E. Tuzo and Co. 1903. (San Juan, Puerto Rico). Page 220. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
  2. ↑ Las fiestas populares de Ponce By Ramón Marín and Socorro Girón. University of Puerto Rico Press (San Juan, PR). ISBN 0-8477-0189-1. 1994. Page 50.
  3. ↑ Biographical Sketches: Uliano Colom. William H. Hunt. Secretary of Puerto Rico. 27 July 1901. San Juan: San Juan News Press. Register of Porto Rico. Page 60. Retrieved 27 April 2013.

Notes

  1. ↑ According to famed Ponce historian Eduardo Neuman Gandia, the spelling of Ulpiano Colóm's last name (Colóm) does have a diacritical mark over the second "o" of "Colóm". See Eduardo Neumann Gandia. Verdadera y Autentica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. (San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. 1913.) Page 52. Accessed 14 June 2018.
Political offices
Preceded by
Luis Gautier		 Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
1898–1898		 Succeeded by
José Lloréns Echevarría


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