Francisco Parra Capó

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|name = Francisco Parra Capó

|image = Francisco Parra Capo, former mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico (DSC03171).jpg

|caption = Mayor Francisco Parra Capó

|order1 = 116th

|office1 = Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico

|term_start1 = 1921

|term_end1 = 1923

|predecessor1 = Rodulfo del Valle

|successor1 = Abelardo Aguilú, Jr.

|birth_date = 20 December 1871[https://books.google.com/books?id=73hsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA60 Biographical Sketches: Francisco Parra.] William H. Hunt. Secretary of Puerto Rico. 27 July 1901. San Juan: San Juan News Press. Register of Porto Rico. Page 60. Retrieved 27 April 2013.

|birth_place = Ponce, Puerto Rico

|death_date = ca. 1945

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|nationality = Puerto Rican

|party = Republicano Puertorriqueño

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|profession = Attorney

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Francisco Parra Capó (20 December 1871 – ca. 1945) was a Puerto Rican attorney, politician, and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1921 to 1923.

Early years

Francisco Parra Capó was born in Ponce in 1867, the son of Francisco Parra Duperón and Eufemia Constanza Capó Ortiz de la Renta Bermudas.{{cite web|url=https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/m/a/r/David-Martinez-FL/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0696.html|title=David-Martinez-FL - User Trees - Genealogy.com|website=Genealogy}}{{efn|Other sources, such as Ancestry.com, state he was born on 2 January 1875}}

Professional life

In 1900 he was elected to the Puerto Rico House of Delegates for the district of Ponce and served until the end of his term in 1902.{{cite book | last=Bayrón Toro | first=Fernando | year=2003 | title=Elecciones y Partidos Politicos de Puerto Rico 1809-2000 | publisher=Editorial Isla | location=Mayagüez, Puerto Rico | isbn=0-9650185-0-4 | no-pp=true |language=es | page=116}}

In 1919, he worked as the Archivero General (Archivist-in-Chief) for the Ponce District.{{cite web|url=http://www.upr.edu/biblioteca-rrp/|title=Sistema de Bibliotecas|website=Sistema de Bibliotecas}} He became an attorney and joined his father's law firm in Ponce.[https://books.google.com/books?id=mDwwAAAAYAAJ&pg=95 The Commercial guide and business directory of Porto Rico. Lawyers and Notaries. Page 95.] The law firm, known as Parra, del Valle & Limeres, operated until 2016 from the Banco de Ponce Building. At the time of its closing, it was the oldest law firm in Puerto Rico.{{Cite web | title = History Parra, del Valle & Limeres Law Firm | publisher = Parra, del Valle & Limeres Law Firm | year = 2011 | url = http://www.pdvl.com/5052.html | access-date = March 14, 2011}} As an attorney, Parra Capó subsequently worked as a military aid to governor Blanton Winship in the mid to late 1930s with his nephew Francisco Parra Toro.[http://kalathos.metro.inter.edu/Num_1/Mu%F1oz_y_Masacre_de_Ponce.pdf Parra Capo as a lawyer] Retrieved March 26, 2010.{{cite web |url=http://www.enciclopediapr.org/esp/article.cfm?ref=06102005 |title=Historia y Arqueología: Masacre de Ponce (1937) |website=www.enciclopediapr.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514005321/http://www.enciclopediapr.org/esp/article.cfm?ref=06102005 |archive-date=2008-05-14}}

Parra Capó was president of the Ponce Municipal Assembly when the Ponce massacre took place on March 21, 1937.{{cite journal |last1=Rosario Natale |first1=Carmelo |date=2007 |title=Luiz Muñoz Marín, Arthur Garfield Hays y La Masacre de Ponce: Una Revelación Documental Inédita |url=http://kalathos.metro.inter.edu/Num_1/Mu%F1oz_y_Masacre_de_Ponce.pdf |journal=Kálathos: Revista Transdisciplinaria Metro-Inter |publisher=Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico |volume=1 |issue=1 |language=es |pages=6 |access-date=2020-05-23}}

Francisco Parra Capó

Early years

Professional life

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