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          Felisa Rincón de Gautier

          Puerto Rican mayor

          Felisa Rincón de Gautier[note 1] (née Rincón y Marrero), also known as Doña Fela,[1] (January 9, 1897 – September 16, 1994) was a Puerto Rican politician who served as the mayor of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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        4. ELISA RINCÓN de Gautier, better know as Doña Felisa, was the first woman to hold the office of mayor of an important city in the Western Hemisphere.
        5. Felisa Rincón de Gautier was the first female mayor of any capital city in the Americas.

          6. She was the first woman to be elected as mayor of a capital city in the Americas.[2]

          Early years

          Rincón de Gautier was born on January 9, 1897, in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. She was the oldest of nine children[1] — Felisa, Josefina, Cecilia, Esilda, Ramón, Rafael, Enrique, and Rita.

          Her father, attorney Enrique Rincón Plumey, was of Spanish descent; her direct paternal grandfather, Francisco Rincón Martín, came from Salamanca, Spain.[3] She was politically influenced by her father, who was from the family of an earlier Mayor of Yabucoa.[who?] Her mother, teacher Rita Marrero Rivera, died when she was around 11 years old.

          After her mother died,