Carlos Juan Cintrón
{{short description|Puerto Rican politician}}
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|name = Carlos Juan Cintrón
|image = Carlos Juan Cintron, Mayor of Ponce, PR (17-DSC00487).jpg
|caption = Mayor Carlos Juan Cintrón
|order1 = 124th
|office1 = Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
|term_start1 = 1957
|term_end1 = 1961
|predecessor1 = José Dapena Laguna
|successor1 = Juan Luis Boscio
|birth_date = 6 September 1918[http://www.ancientfaces.com/person/carlos-j-cintron/91001131 Carlos J. Cintron (1918-1998).] Retrieved 27 April 2013.
|birth_place = Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico
|death_date = {{death date and age|1998|5|5|1918|9|6|df=yes}}
|death_place = Ponce, Puerto Rico
|nationality = Puerto Rican
|party = PPD[http://www.travelponce.com/Datos-sobre-Ponce.html Datos sobre Ponce: Alcaldes de Ponce (1941-2012).] Travel-Ponce.com Ponce, Puerto Rico. Accessed 13 July 2017.
|spouse = 1st: Josefina Fernandez Reyes
2nd: Rosa Gonzalez
|relations =
|children = 1st marriage: Carlos Juan, Rosa Margarita, Lillian, Enrique, Luis, and Lombardo.
2nd marriage: Brenda
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|profession = Politician
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Carlos Juan Cintrón FigueroaCarmelo Rosario Natal. Ponce En Su Historia Moderna: 1945-2002. Published by Secretaría de Cultura y Turismo of the Government of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 2003. p. 54. (6 September 1918[https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60901&h=35272561&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PDj83&_phstart=successSource Carlos Juan Cintron in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007.] Accessed 3 February 2019. – 5 May 1998) was mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico from 1957 to 1961. However, in year 1960,Fay Fowlie de Flores. Ponce, Perla del Sur: Una Bibliográfica Anotada. Second Edition. 1997. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Universidad de Puerto Rico en Ponce. p. 22. Item 111. {{LCCN|9275480}}United States. 86th Congress. House of Representatives Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Hearing before a Special Subcommittee on Territorial and Insular Affairs...H. R. 9234, a Bill to Provide for Amendments to the Compact between the People of Puerto Rico and the United States, and Related Legislation. Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1960. (Colegio Universitario Tecnológico de Ponce, CUTPO) during a period while Cintron held his post as mayor, Helvetia Nicole filled in as interim mayor.[http://www.wapa.tv/noticias.php?nid=20080809132542# Históricas las elecciones en Ponce: Una candidata a alcaldesa, un nuevo partido local y los aspirantes a la poltrona municipal no nacieron en la Perla del Sur.] Associated Press. WAPA-TV. 9 August 2008. Accessed 2 August 2017. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120217150635/http://www.wapa.tv/noticias/locales/historicas-las-elecciones-en-ponce_20080809132542.html Archived] on 17 February 2012 at the WayBack Machine. After his tenure as mayor, Cintrón was president of Puerto Rico's Unión de Trabajadores de Acero (United Steelworkers of America).[http://www.jrt.pr.gov/DecisionesOrdenes/Documents/1965/Junio/CA-3020%20(D-392).pdf Buena Vista Dairy, Inc. Y Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO: Decision Numero 392, Caso Numero CA-3020. Resuelto en 23 de Junio de 1965.] Junta de Relaciones del Trabajo. Government of Puerto Rico. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 23 June 1965. Accessed 2 August 2017.
Personal life
Cintron Figueroa was born in Barrio Callabos, Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico.[https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6061/4442162_01029?pid=59397726&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D6061%26h%3D59397726%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DPDj84%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PDj84&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true 1920 United States Federal Census for Carlos Juan Cintron Y Figueroa > Puerto Rico > Juana Diaz > Callabos > District 0697.] Accessed 3 February 2019. 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.[https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6224/4661358_00231?pid=110337096&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D6224%26h%3D110337096%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DPDj86%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PDj86&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true 1930 United States Federal Census for Carlos Juan Cintron, Puerto Rico, Juana Diaz, Collores, District, 0010.] US Census Bureau. Accessed 3 February 2019.[http://www.ancientfaces.com/person/carlos-j-cintron/91001131 Carlos J. Cintron (1918-1998).] Retrieved 27 April 2013. Cintrón Figueroa married Josefina Fernandez Reyes on 22 May 1936,[https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9100/004561556_00728?pid=3766751&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D9100%26h%3D3766751%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DPDj89%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PDj89&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true 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
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References
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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. {{LCCN|9275480}}
- 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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Category:Mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico