Luis Muñoz Marín

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Luis Muñoz Marín was the first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico and a key architect of its mid-20th-century political and economic transformation.


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instanceOf Governor of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican
human
journalist
poet
politician
birthDate 1898-02-18
birthPlace San Juan, Puerto Rico
burialPlace Luis Muñoz Marín Park, San Juan, Puerto Rico
child Victoria Muñoz Mendoza
commemoratedBy Luis Muñoz Marín Foundation
Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport
countryOfCitizenship Puerto Rico
United States
deathDate 1980-04-30
deathPlace San Juan, Puerto Rico
educatedAt Georgetown University
familyName Muñoz Marín
father Luis Muñoz Rivera
founderOf Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico
fullName José Luis Alberto Muñoz Marín
givenName Luis
honor Medal of Freedom
ideology social democracy
knownFor architect of Puerto Rico’s mid-20th-century economic transformation
architect of Puerto Rico’s mid-20th-century political transformation
first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico
languageSpoken English
Spanish
legislativeBody Senate of Puerto Rico
memberOfPoliticalParty Liberal Party of Puerto Rico
Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico
mother Amalia Marín Castilla
movement Puerto Rican autonomism
notableIdea Estado Libre Asociado (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico)
notableWork Operation Bootstrap (Operación Manos a la Obra)
numberInOffice 1st democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico
officeEnd 1965-01-02
officeStart 1949-01-02
positionHeld Governor of Puerto Rico
Member of the Senate of Puerto Rico
President of the Senate of Puerto Rico
predecessor Jesús T. Piñero
religion Roman Catholicism
spouse Inés Mendoza
Mabel Pagán
successor Roberto Sánchez Vilella
termEndAsPresidentOfSenate 1949
termStartAsPresidentOfSenate 1941

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