Muñoz Marín, Luis

Muñoz Marín, Luis
born Feb. 18, 1898, San Juan, P.R.
died April 30, 1980, San Juan

Statesman and four-term governor of Puerto Rico (1948–64).

Educated in the U.S., he became editor of the newspaper La Democracia and was elected to the Puerto Rican senate in 1932. Early in his career he advocated independence from the U.S., but later he worked closely with the U.S.-appointed governor to improve conditions in Puerto Rico. He achieved success with Operation Bootstrap, a program for rapid economic growth. When Puerto Rico received the right to elect its own governor in 1948, he was overwhelmingly elected and repeatedly reelected. He achieved his goal of making Puerto Rico a commonwealth.

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▪ Puerto Rican statesman
born February 18, 1898, San Juan, Puerto Rico
died April 30, 1980, San Juan
 statesman who served four four-year terms as the elected governor of Puerto Rico. Early in his career he advocated independence for the island, but later he worked for its social and economic progress in partnership with the United States.

      Muñoz Marín, son of the statesman, publisher, and patriot Luis Muñoz Rivera (Muñoz Rivera, Luis), was educated in the United States, where his father served as resident commissioner (1910–16). After serving as secretary to the commissioner (1916–18), studying law, and writing two books, he returned to Puerto Rico (1926) and edited the newspaper La Democracia, founded by his father. Elected to the Puerto Rican Senate (1932), he aligned himself with advocates of independence from the United States. As a result, he was expelled from the Liberal Party (1937). In 1938 he organized the Popular Democratic Party, which won its first victory in 1940 and made Muñoz Marín president of the Senate, a post he held until 1948.

      Changing his mind about independence, Muñoz Marín worked closely with the U.S.-appointed governor, Rexford G. Tugwell, to improve housing, farming, and industrial conditions. His Operation Bootstrap was successful as a program for rapid economic growth. When the United States granted Puerto Rico the right to elect its own governor (1948), Muñoz Marín was overwhelmingly elected and then reelected in 1952, 1956, and 1960. During his governorship, he achieved a lifelong goal in changing Puerto Rico's status to that of a commonwealth. In December 1963 he received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. He refused to run for a fifth term as governor in 1964, stepping aside to serve once again in the Senate of Puerto Rico.

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