Juan García Ducós was a Puerto Rican

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and senator. García Ducós was a member of the Puerto Rico House of Delegates during the early 1900s. In 1917, García Ducós was elected as a member of the first Puerto Rican Senate established by the Jones-Shafroth Act. He represented the District III (Aguadilla). García Ducós was reelected at the 1920 general elections. After that, like most of his fellow party members, he joined

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, a joint political venture with the

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. He was again reelected at the 1924 general elections. García Ducós was strongly against the

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, and tried several times to abolish it during his terms. There's a housing project in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Garcia, Juan Members of the Senate of Puerto Rico People from Aguadilla, Puerto Rico