Everything about Federico Degetau totally explained
Federico Degetau y González (
December 5,
1862 –
January 20,
1914) was a
Puerto Rican politician,
lawyer,
writer,
author, and the first
Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the
United States House of Representatives.
Degetau was born in
Ponce, Puerto Rico, and attended the common schools and the
Central College of Ponce. He completed an academic course at
Barcelona, Spain, and was graduated from the law department of the
Central University of Madrid. He was admitted to the
bar and commenced practice in
Madrid, Spain. He founded the newspaper
La Isla de Puerto Rico to communicate the plight of Puerto Rico to the
colonial power.
Degetau returned to Puerto Rico, and was one of the four commissioners sent by Puerto Rico under
Luis Muñoz Rivera to ask
Spain for autonomy in 1895. The petition was denied but a colonial-civil government was imposed by the U.S. Congress three years later. He settled in
San Juan, Puerto Rico and continued the
practice of law.
Degetau was a member of the municipal council of San Juan in 1897, and
mayor of San Juan in 1898. He was deputy to the Spanish
Cortes Generales of 1898. After the
Spanish-American War, he was appointed by the
military governor General
Guy Vernor Henry as the
Secretary of the Interior in the first cabinet formed under American rule in Puerto Rico, in 1899. He was appointed by General Henry's successor, General
George W. Davis, as a member of the Insular Board of Charities.
Degetau became a member of the
Insular Republican Party, which was founded in 1899. He was the first vice president of the municipal council of San Juan in 1899 and 1900, and was president of the Board of Education of San Juan in 1900 and 1901. He was elected as a
Puerto Rican Republican to the Resident Commissioner post in 1900, and reelected in 1902. He served from
March 4,
1901 until
March 3,
1905, in the
Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and
Fifty-eighth Congresses. He was a member of the Committee on Insular Affairs, and submitted a
bill to grant United States
citizenship to Puerto Rico residents, which failed. He wasn't a candidate for renomination in 1904, and resumed the practice of law.
As an author, he wrote
El secreto de la domadora in 1886,
Que Quijote!, Cuentos para el camino in 1894,
Juventud in 1895, and
La Injuria in 1893.
Degetau died in
Santurce, Puerto Rico, and was interred in the Cemetery of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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