Luis Muñoz Marín
José Luis Alberto Muñoz Marín (February 18, 1898April 30, 1980) was a
Puerto Rican journalist, politician, statesman and was the first elected governor of
Puerto Rico, regarded as the "Architect of the Puerto Rico Commonwealth."
In 1948 he was the first democratically elected
governor of Puerto Rico, spearheading an administration that engineered profound economic, political and social reforms; accomplishments that were internationally lauded by many politicians, statesmen, political scientists and economists of the period. Muñoz Marín was instrumental in the suppression of the
Nationalist Party and its efforts to gain independence.
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