Juan Bernardo Huyke Bozello (June 11, 1880 – December 17, 1961) served as acting

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several months in 1923.

Background

Huyke was born in

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on June 11, 1880. He was the son of Don Enrique Huyke and Doña Carmen Bozello. His father, who was a principal of a school in Arroyo, named Huyke after his grandfather (Bernardo H. Huyke) who lived with family on the island of

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in 1891. At the age of 21 Juan Bernardo Huyke began his career as an English teacher at a school in Arroyo. He was an attorney, writer, publisher, educator, and

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. He served as Puerto Rico's

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of Schools from 1908 until 1910. As superintendent, he was one of the first people to promote

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education. Huyke Bozello was president of the

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in Puerto Rico. He served in the Puerto Rico House of Representatives from 1912 to 1920, and became Commissioner of Public Instruction in 1921 until 1930. For several months in 1923, Huyke served as interim Governor of Puerto Rico between the administrations of Emmet Montgomery Reily and

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. He was the second native Puerto Rican to serve as interim Governor of Puerto Rico, the first was

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. From 1935 to 1945 Huyke was Chairman of the Puerto Rico Civil Service Commission. In 1950, Huyke was the superintendent of the Bayamón school district. Juan B. Huyke died on December 17, 1961 in

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Publications

In 1932, Huyke published ''El Pais'' (The Country) a pro-statehood newspaper that represented many conservative views. Huyke wrote and published several books, among his popular sellers were ''Children and Schools'' , ''Advice Our Youth'', ''Stories of Puerto Rico'', ''If I Were 21 Years old'', ''Verse of Hector'', ''The Small Cause'', ''The Antillean Agony'', and ''How I Educated My Son''.

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