Antonio E. Molina

Antonio E. Molina (c. 1820 – 21 August 1899Cementerio Civil de Ponce. 3 January 2019.) was one of five interim mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico, during the six-month period of 14 February 1854 to 24 July 1854.Socorro Girón. Ponce, el Teatro La Perla y La Campana de la Almudaina. Gobierno Municipal de Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 1992. page 52.Neysa Rodriguez Deynes. Brevario Sobre la Historia de Ponce. Gobierno Municipal de Ponce. 2002. p.166.

Introduction to politics In 1853,Emilio Pasarell. Esculcando el Siglo XIX en Puerto Rico. Barcelona: M. Pareja. 1967. p.16. prior to becoming mayor, Molina (together with Esteban Vidal, Bienaventura Font, Salvador Coronas and Pedro Alfonso) had been members of the Ponce Municipal Assembly.Socorro Girón. Ponce, el Teatro La Perla y La Campana de la Almudaina. Gobierno Municipal de Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 1992. p. 68. At that time a member of the municipal assembly was called regidor.Emilio Pasarell. Esculcando el Siglo XIX en Puerto Rico. Barcelona: M. Pareja. 1967. p.16. The other four interim mayors during that six-month period were Julio Duboc, Escolástico Fuentes, Pablo Manfredi, and José Benito Paz Falcón.Socorro Girón. Ponce, el Teatro La Perla y La Campana de la Almudaina. Gobierno Municipal de Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 1992. page 52.

Mayoral term In 1854, an anonymous humorous and satirical brochure titled Ensaladillas appeared in Ponce which was not well received. On 31 December 1854, the mayor of Ponce published an edict in the local newspaper that anyone caught reading or copying the brochure would be fined 4 pesos.Emilio J. Pasarell. Esculcando el Siglo XIX en Puerto Rico. Barcelona, Spain: M. Pareja Press. 1967. page 18.

Death Molina died in Ponce on 21 August 1899 and was interred at Cementerio Civil de Ponce.Cementerio Civil de Ponce. 3 January 2019.

Antonio E. Molina

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