Felisa rincon de gautier biography of martin

Puerto Rican mayor

Felisa Rincón de Gautier^{[note 1]} (née Rincón y Marrero), also known as Doña Fela,^[1] (January 9, 1897 – September 16, 1994) was a Puerto Rican politician who served as the mayor of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

She was the first woman to be elected as mayor of a capital city in the Americas.^[2]

Early years

Rincón de Gautier was born on January 9, 1897, in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. She was the oldest of nine children^[1] — Felisa, Josefina, Cecilia, Esilda, Ramón, Rafael, Enrique, and Rita.

Her father, attorney Enrique Rincón Plumey, was of Spanish descent; her direct paternal grandfather, Francisco Rincón Martín, came from Salamanca, Spain.^[3] She was politically influenced by her father, who was from the family of an earlier Mayor of Yabucoa.^[who?] Her mother, teacher Rita Marrero Rivera, died when she was around 11 years old.

After her mother died,