Tomás Pérez Guerra
22nd Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
In office
1 January 1826[1] – 31 December 1826[2]
Preceded byJosé Ortíz de la Renta
Succeeded byJulián Villodas
Personal details
Bornca. 1766
Diedca. 1846

Tomás Pérez Guerra[3][4] (ca. 1766 – ca. 1846) was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1 January 1826[5] to 31 December 1826.[6]

Mayoral term

On 31 August 1826, during the midst of mayor Pérez Guerra's mayoral term, a slave revolt in Ponce against the slave owners in Ponce was discovered and the slaves were condemned to death. The Provincial Military Governor of Puerto Rico, Miguel de la Torre, traveled to Ponce to witness the mass shooting. The 11 slaves shot dead were named as follows: Francisco Jose, Federico, Benito, Pablo Viejo, Oguis, Jose Felix (from Barrio El Quemado), Faustino (also from Barrio El Quemado), Francisco Antonio, Don Esteban Miguel Roque's Francisco Antonio and Manuel, and Don Wedestein's Inés.[7] There are no Acts in the Municipality for the period from 1824 to 1834, affecting the period while Pérez Guerra was mayor.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Eduardo Neumann Gandia. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 276.
  2. ↑ Eduardo Neumann Gandia. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 276.
  3. ↑ Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. 1913. p. 166.
  4. ↑ Municipio de Ponce: Alcaldes en su Historia. Puerto Rico Encyclopedia. Fundación Puertorriqueña para las Humanidades. 2018. Accessed 2 May 2018. Archived 23 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  5. ↑ Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 276.
  6. ↑ Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 276.
  7. ↑ Eduardo Neumann Gandía. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 261-261.
  8. ↑ Mariano Vidal Armstrong. Ponce: Notas para su Historia. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Second Edition 1986. p. 79.

Further reading

  • Ramon Marin. Las Fiestas Populares de Ponce. Editorial Universidad de Puerto Rico. 1994.


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