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Rincón de Gautier, Felisa

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Rincón de Gautier, Felisa (1897-1994)

Puerto Rican mayor who was the first woman mayor of San Juan 1946-69. Her weekly open-houses at her official residence and such gestures as flying snow to San Juan for children's Christmas parties made her enormously popular. In 1953 the League of American Women gave her its Woman of the Year Award.

She was born in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. She assisted Luis Muñoz Marín in forming the Popular Democratic Party in the 1930s.



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