Subject Files, 1933 - 1951

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Subject Files, 1933 - 1951

1933-1951

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/16934397

This series contains correspondence, printed materials, and other materials on subjects of particular interest to Rexford G. Tugwell. Included in this series are files related to the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission, city planning, atomic energy, and the 1948 presidential campaign of Henry A. Wallace. Also included in this series are files related to Tugwell's tenure as Governor of Puerto Rico, including files on education, health, legislation, planning, police, shipping, sugar, Luis Munoz-Marin, and the University of Puerto Rico.

3 linear feet, 6 linear inches

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Muñoz Marín, Luis, 1898-1980

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Luis Muñoz Marín, a Puerto Rican writer and political leader, was the first elected governor of Puerto Rico. His father, Luis Muñoz Rivera (1859-1916), was elected in 1910 as Puerto Rico's resident commissioner in Washington, D.C. Muñoz Marín was a strong advocate of increased autonomy for Puerto Rico, while believing that the island should maintain its economically beneficial ties with the United States. He was governer from 1949 to 1965, and was the principal founder of the Commonwealth (...