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Ulpiano Colóm

Ulpiano Colom
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Mayor Ulpiano Colóm y Ferrer
Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
In office
1898–1898
Preceded by Luis Gautier
Succeeded by José Lloréns Echevarría
Personal details
Born 3 April 1861
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Nationality Puerto Rican
Profession Politician

Ulpiano Colom y Ferrer (b. 3 April 1861 - ca. 1920) was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, during part of 1898.

He was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on 3 April 1861.

Colom y Ferrer became mayor of Ponce on 8 July 1898. He was the sitting mayor of Ponce at the time when the Americans took possession of the city on July 28, 1898. Upon the American invasion, Colom tendered his resignation, but it was not accepted by the American Major General James H. Wilson, who instead extended Colom's jurisdiction to additional adjacent towns as the American troops advanced.

He was an attorney, a member of the House of Delegates of Puerto Rico, a councilman for the municipality of Ponce, an assistant in the Ponce Fire Department, a director and vice-president of the Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño, and a municipal judge, amongst the various other positions he held.



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