Julián Villodas

Julián H. Villodas was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1 January 1827[4] – 31 December 1830.[5] He performed as a teniente a guerra.[6]

Julián Villodas
23rd Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
In office 1 January 1827[1] – 31 December 1830[2]
Preceded by	Tomás Pérez Guerra
Succeeded by	Tomás de Renovales
Personal details
Occupation	Teniente a guerra
Profession	Lieutenant colonel[3]

Mayoral term

Villodas is best known for serving concurrently as mayor of the nearby town of Guayama for four years (from 1830 to 1833) while he also served as mayor of Ponce.[7] Villodas was a sugar cane plantation owner in the municipality of Guayama, which may explain why he served there as mayor.[8]

There are no Acts in the Municipality of Ponce for the period 1824 to 1834, affecting the period while he was mayor as well, so little more is known about Julián Villodas's mayoral term.[9] However, in April 1835, while Villodas was still mayor of Ponce, the rebuilding of the Ponce parroquial church was started. Councilmen Geronimo Rabassa, Olegario González and Jose Maria Ramirez made up the building commission.[10]

See also

• List of mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico
• List of Puerto Ricans

References

1. Encyclopedia Puerto Rico.
2. Encyclopedia Puerto Rico.
3. Memorias goegráficas, históricas, económicas, y estadísticas de la isla de Puerto-Rico. Pedro Tomás de Córdoba, Honorary Secretary of the Spanish Crown and of the Spanish government in Puerto Rico. 1833. Tomo V. p.279.
4. Municipio de Ponce: Alcaldes en su Historia. Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico. Fundación Puertorriqueña para las Humanidades. 2018. Accessed 5 May 2019.
5. Municipio de Ponce: Alcaldes en su Historia. Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico. Fundación Puertorriqueña para las Humanidades. 2018. Accessed 5 May 2019.
6. Eduardo Neumann Gandia. Verdadera y Autentica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. 1913. p.275.
7. Mayors of Guayama. Official City of Guayama web site. Accessed 20 October 2019.
8. Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-century Puerto Rico by Luis Antonio Figueroa. Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2005. ISBN 0-8078-2949-8 Page 136.
9. Mariano Vidal Armstrong. Ponce: Notas para su Historia. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Second Edition 1986. p. 79.
10. Eduardo Neumann Gandia. Verdadera y Autentica Historia de Ponce. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. 1913. p. 29.