Juan Bernardo Huyke

Juan Bernardo Huyke

Juan Bernardo Huyke (1880-1961) served as Governor of Puerto Rico.

Background

Huyke was born in Arroyo, Puerto Rico on June 11, 1880. He was an attorney, writer, publisher, educator, and statesman. He served as Puerto Rico’s Superintendent of School from 1908 until 1910. As superintendent, he was one of the first people to promote bilingual education. He served in Puerto Rico’s Assembly from 1912 to 1920, and became Commissioner of Public Instruction in 1921 until 1930.

For several months in 1923, Huyke served as interim Governor of Puerto Rico between the administrations of Emmet Montgomery Reily and Horace Mann Towner. He was the second Puerto Rican native to serve as Governor of Puerto Rico, the first was Juan Ponce de Leon II. From 1935 to 1945 Huyke was Chairman of the Puerto Rico Civil Service Commission.

Publications

In 1932, Huyke published "El Pais" (The Country) a pro-statehood newspaper that represented many conservative views.

Huyke wrote and published several books, among his popular sellers were "Children and Schools", "Advice Our Youth", "Stories of Puerto Rico", "If I Were 21 Years Old", "Verse of Hector", "The Small Cause", "The Antillean Agony", and "How I Educated My Son".


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