Julián H. Villodas was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1 January 1827Municipio de Ponce: Alcaldes en su Historia. Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico. Fundación Puertorriqueña para las Humanidades. 2018. Accessed 5 May 2019. – 31 December 1830.Municipio de Ponce: Alcaldes en su Historia. Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico. Fundación Puertorriqueña para las Humanidades. 2018. Accessed 5 May 2019. He performed as a teniente a guerra.Eduardo Neumann Gandia. Verdadera y Autentica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. 1913. p.275.
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.Mayors of Guayama. Official City of Guayama web site. Accessed 20 October 2019. Villodas was a sugar cane plantation owner in the municipality of Guayama, which may explain why he served there as mayor.Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-century Puerto Rico by Luis Antonio Figueroa. Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2005. Page 136.
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.Mariano Vidal Armstrong. Ponce: Notas para su Historia. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Second Edition 1986. p. 79. 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.Eduardo Neumann Gandia. Verdadera y Autentica Historia de Ponce. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. 1913. p. 29.
See also
List of mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico List of Puerto Ricans
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