Rincón de Gautier, Felisa

Rincón de Gautier, Felisa

(1897–1994) mayor; born in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. She assisted Luis Muñoz Marín in forming the Popular Democratic Party in the 1930s, but was best known for being the first woman mayor of San Juan (1946–69). Her weekly open-houses at her official residence and such gestures as flying snow to San Juan for children's Christmas parties made her enormously popular. In 1953 the League of American Women gave her its Woman of the Year Award.