José María Marxuach
| José María Marxuach Echavarría (Baptized as José Monserrate Marxuach Echavarría) |
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| Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico | |
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In office May 12, 1897 – July 1, 1897 |
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| Preceded by | Jose Ramon Becerra y de Garrete |
| Succeeded by | Francisco Del Valle Atiles |
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In office December 11, 1900 – March 7, 1901 |
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| Preceded by | Manuel Egozcue Cintrón |
| Succeeded by | Manuel Egozcue Cintrón |
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| Born | April 16, 1848 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico |
| Died | 1910 San Juan de Puerto Rico |
| Political party | Spanish Unconditional Party, Puerto Rican Republican Party |
| Profession | Medical doctor, Politician |
Dr. José María Marxuach Echavarría (baptized as José Monserrate Marxuach Echavarría) (April 16, 1848 – 1910), was a medical doctor and politician who served twice as Mayor of the City of San Juan, Puerto Rico. His first administration was under Spanish colonial rule and his second administration under United States rule. He is the only person to have served in that capacity under the rule of two different colonial governments.
Marxuach Echavarría was born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, and baptized as "José Monserrate Marxuach Echavarría". His parents were Francisco Marxuach Ferrer (son of Juan Marxuach Prats and Francisca Ferrer of Mataró, Catalonia) and Beatriz Amalia Echavarría Conti. His mother was the granddaughter of Colonel Rafael Conti y Flores, remembered for his defense of Aguadilla during the British invasion of 1797, and the great-granddaughter of Colonel Francisco Torralbo y Robles, governor of the island from 1794 to 1798.
Following in the footsteps of his maternal uncle, José Rafael Echavarría Conti, Marxuach Echavarría traveled to Spain to study medicine at the University of Zaragoza, from which he graduated in 1871 with a licenciatura in medicine and surgery. After his return to Puerto Rico he worked as a general practitioner in various towns on the island, including San Juan. In 1881 he was designated President of the Subdelegation of Medical and Surgical Sciences of Puerto Rico.
In 1897, while holding the post of Primer Teniente de Alcalde of San Juan, he was selected for the post of Mayor ad interim. During his administration San Juan's pedestrian and drainage infrastructure–and thus its general level of sanitation–was greatly improved; other modernizations resulted in the tearing down of a stretch of the city's ancient presidio walls.
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