Portal:Puerto Rico/Did you know entries/16

Political topics
 * ... that Jesús T. Piñero was not the first native Puerto Rican governor of Puerto Rico? That honor belongs to Juan Ponce de León II, who in 1597 became the first native Puerto Rican to assume, temporarily, the governorship of Puerto Rico.
 * ... that Felisa Rincón de Gautier (also known as Doña Fela) was the first woman to be elected as the mayor of a capital city in any of the Americas?
 * ... that Nydia Velázquez was the first Puerto Rican woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress?
 * ... that José María Marxuach Echavarría was the only Puerto Rican to serve as the Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico under both Spanish and American rule. He served in 1897 for the Liberal Reformista Party and again from 1900-1901 for the Puerto Rican Republican Party?
 * ... that María Luisa Arcelay was the first woman in Puerto Rico and in all of Latin America to be elected to a government legislative body?
 * ... that Carmen E. Arroyo was the first Puerto Rican woman elected to any state assembly and chair of the New York Hispanic Legislative Caucus?
 * ... that Herman Badillo was the first Puerto Rican to serve in U.S. Congress?
 * ... that the father of Joaquín Balaguer, the former president of the Dominican Republic, was Puerto Rican?
 * ... that the mother of Juan Bosch, the former president of Dominican Republic, was Puerto Rican?
 * ... that María de las Mercedes Barbudo (1773-1849) was a political activist who was the first female "Independentista" meaning that she was the first Puerto Rican woman to become an avid advocate of Puerto Rican Independence, and that she was involved with the Puerto Rican Independence Movement which had ties with the Venezuelan rebels led by Simón Bolívar and who were against Spanish colonial rule in Puerto Rico.?
 * ... that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic congresswoman for United States House of Representatives New York District 14, is the youngest woman in history to be elected to congress?