Carlos Juan Cintrón Figueroa (6 September 1918 – 5 May 1998) was mayor of
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Ponce ( , , ) is a city and a Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico. The most populated city outside the San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan metropolitan area, Ponce was founded on August 12, 1692Some publ ...
from 1957 to 1961. However, in year 1960, during a period while Cintron held his post as mayor, Helvetia Nicole filled in as interim mayor. After his tenure as mayor, Cintrón was president of Puerto Rico's Unión de Trabajadores de Acero (
United Steelworkers of America
The United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, commonly known as the United Steelworkers (USW), is a general trade union with members across North America. Headqua ...
).
Personal life
Cintron Figueroa was born in Barrio Callabos, Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico. He was the son of Luis Cintron Rodriguez and Rosa Maria Figueroa Nazario. He had a brother, 2 years older than him, named Carlos Luis. Cintrón Figueroa married Josefina Fernandez Reyes on 22 May 1936,
''Puerto Rico, Civil Registrations, 1885-2001 for Carlos J Cintrón Figueroa: Matrimonios (Marriages), Juana Díaz, Matrimonios 1931-1948.''
Accessed 3 February 2019. and fathered seven children (Carlos Juan, Rosa Margarita, Lillian, Enrique, Luis, and Lombardo), in this first marriage. Josefina Fernandez Reyes was Ponce's First Lady during Cintron's tenure as mayor. After his divorce from Fernandez Reyes, he married Rosa Gonzalez from which relationship his seventh child, Brenda, was born.
Carlos Juan Cintron died on May 5, 1998, in Ponce, Puerto Rico at age 79.
See also
* List of Puerto Ricans
This is a list of notable people from Puerto Rico which includes people who were born in Puerto Rico (Borinquen) and people who are of full or partial Puerto Rican people, Puerto Rican descent. Puerto Rican citizens are included, as the governm ...
* List of mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico
This is a list of mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico, Ponce, Puerto Rico's southern economic center, the island's second largest and second most important city.
From 1692 to 1840, the office of mayor in Ponce was filled either by local hacendados or ...
References
Further reading
* Fay Fowlie de Flores. ''Ponce, Perla del Sur: Una Bibliográfica Anotada.'' Second Edition. 1997. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Universidad de Puerto Rico en Ponce. p. 173. Item 880.
* ''Carnaval de Ponce: programa.'' Ponce, Puerto Rico. 196x? - . Includes photos. (Archivo Histórico Municipal de Ponce, AHMP; Colegio Universitario Tecnológico de Ponce, CUTPO)
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1918 births
1998 deaths
20th-century mayors of places in Puerto Rico
Mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico
People from Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico
United Steelworkers people