Luis a ferre: Luis A. Ferré — National Governors Association
Luis A. Ferré — Museo de Arte de Ponce
1904
Born on February 17 in Ponce. His parents were Don Antonio Ferré Bacallao and Mary Aguayo Casals. His wife, Lorencita Ramírez de Arellano and their children, Rosario Ferré and Antonio Luis Ferré.
1904
1920-1925
He graduated from Bachelor of Science and has a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
From a young age he was a talented pianist. He did advanced piano studies for five years, at New England Conservatory of Music, Mass., Boston.
1920-1925
1925
He began his career as an engineer at the Porto Rico Iron Works (PRIW), founded by his father, in 1918. The PRIW became the main foundry and steel structures and machinery industry in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
1925
1935
His passion for the arts led him to found Pro Arte de Ponce.
1935
1937
He founded and chaired the first Public Library of Ponce (1937-1966).
1937
1940
Candidate for the City Hall of Ponce. It belongs and leads countless civic and charities. Among them, Club de Leones de Ponce, Club de Rotarios and YMCA.
1940
1945
Acquires the newspaper El Día, founded in 1911, in Ponce. He was its president and editor.
1945
1947
Initiatives with the Bishop of Ponce, Bishop James E. McManus, C.Ss.R., for the foundation and construction of the Catholic University of P.R. Thanks to specific contributions from Don Luis, his father and brothers, the University is founded.
1947
1956
Together with his wife, Lorencita Ramírez de Arellano, he created the Luis A. Ferré Foundation to promote the development of arts and education in Puerto Rico.
1956
1959
One of his dreams is realized, the opening of the Ponce Museum of Art.
His first acquisitions for the Museum included a religious painting by José Campeche and a landscape by the famous Puerto Rican impressionist Francisco Oller.
1959
1969-1972
In full swing of his political career, he won the governorship of Puerto Rico during a four-year period. He created the New Progressive Party and five years later he changed into the eighth president of the Senate of Puerto Rico and was previously a member of the House of Representatives.
1969-1972
1991
He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, from the President of the United States. The highest award granted by the US government to civic leaders, for its worthy contribution to culture.
1991
1993-2002
Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation of Musical Arts of Puerto Rico, for the Symphony Orchestra, the Casals Festival, the Conservatory of Music and the music-social programs of the Orchestra.
1993-2002
2003
He died on October 21. It was 99 years.
2003
Luis A. Ferre, 99; Ex-Governor Sought Puerto Rico Statehood
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From Associated Press
Luis A. Ferre, a philanthropist and former governor of Puerto Rico who became the patriarch of the territory’s U.S. statehood movement, died Tuesday in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was 99.
Ferre, who had been hospitalized for weeks with pneumonia, died of respiratory failure with his family at his side, said Jose Serra, a spokesman for the family.
The venerated “Don Luis” had played a prominent role in Puerto Rican politics since World War II, chasing the ideal of U.S. statehood for Puerto Rico while overseeing his charitable foundation.
“Puerto Rico has lost a man of principles who dedicated his life to his ideals,” said Gov. Sila Calderon, who ordered flags flown at half-staff.
Ferre was a member of the assembly that produced Puerto Rico’s 1952 constitution, he founded the pro-statehood New Progressive Party in 1967, and he was governor from 1969 through 1972.
He stayed involved in politics, testifying before U.
S. congressional panels in favor of statehood and participating in presidential nominating conventions. He remained chairman of the island’s branch of the Republican Party and served as Puerto Rico’s Senate president from 1977 to 1980.
“He’s a friend, and I like him very much,” former President George H.W. Bush told Associated Press on Oct. 10.
Born Feb. 17, 1904, in the southern city of Ponce, Ferre was the grandson of a French engineer who worked on the Panama Canal before settling in Cuba. His father, Antonio, moved to Puerto Rico as a young man and married Maria Aguayo Casals, a cousin of the Spanish cellist Pablo Casals, who lived in Puerto Rico.
Ferre studied engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and trained at the New England Conservatory of Music. He was an accomplished classical pianist.
He and his brother started the Puerto Rico Cement Co. in Ponce; it was the source of the family’s wealth. Ferre also founded the city’s library, opened the Ponce Museum of Art and bought the newspaper, which was on the brink of folding.
His son moved the newspaper to San Juan, and El Nuevo Dia is now the island’s biggest daily, with a circulation of about 200,000.
It was during his university days, Ferre said, that he developed a passion for the “American way of democracy” and eventual statehood for Puerto Rico, which was seized as war booty from Spain in 1898.
As members of a commonwealth, Puerto Ricans receive some federal benefits, vote in U.S. presidential primaries and do not pay federal taxes.
Puerto Ricans cannot vote for president, however, and they send only one representative to Congress, who can vote only in committee.
Ferre said Puerto Rico’s “colonial condition” hindered its ability to participate in federal affairs.
Ferre’s first wife, Lorencita Ramirez de Arellano, died in 1970. He is survived by his second wife, Tiody de Jesus; and two children from his first marriage: a son, Antonio; and a daughter, Rosario, the author of “The House On The Lagoon,” a 1995 National Book Award finalist.
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Luis A. Ferré
Date of birth: February 17, 1904
Date of death: October 21, 2003
patron of the arts.
He was Governor of Puerto Rico, serving from 1969 to 1973. He was the founding father of the New Progressive Party, which advocates for Puerto Rico to become a state of the United States of America. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. nine0023
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Photo: Estrella Díaz, http://www.senadopr.us/Pages/PasadosPresidentes.aspx / Public domain
Quotes Luis A. Ferré
„Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.“
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„I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power, addicted to warfare, controlled by a military-industrial complex, and determined to preserve the status quo, that we are against rapid economic and social growth.
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„We speak Spanish but we think American. We don’t want to be a colony, we don’t want to be inferior. We want to be equal.“
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On Puerto Ricans and their relationship with the United States, in a 1999 WOSO radio station interview in Puerto Rico, as quoted by the Associated Press http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2003/Ex-Puerto-Rican-Governor-Ferre-Dies-at-99/id-8cb93046108ad2da5ed0958cda645bfb
„Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.” //www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939385,00.html
„Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.
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On the subject of the Puerto Rican diaspora to a United States Senate committee in 1998, as quoted by the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/ 2003/10/22/us/luis-a-ferre-dies-at-99-pushed-puerto-rican-statehood.html.
“The scholars and critics all called it kitsch, everyone thought I was crazy to buy them.”
Help us translate this quote93 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/22/us/luis-a-ferre-dies-at-99-pushed-puerto-rican-statehood.html, on his acquisition of art pieces to create the Ponce Museum of Art, now the largest art museum in the Caribbean, and considered one of the best in the Americas.
„My theory was that a city without a newspaper is a city without a soul.”
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„I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood, but [even] if I don’t live that long, I am certain it will happen.