James R. Beverley

James R. Beverley

James Rumsey Beverley (June 15, 1894— June 17, 1967, San Juan, Puerto Rico) was a United States lawyer and Attorney General of Puerto Rico. While serving as Attorney General, he also served twice as acting-Governor of Puerto Rico.

Beverley was born in Amarillo, Texas. He served in the United States Army during World War I. He married Mary Smith Jarmon in 1925.

On August 11 1931, Beverley was one of seven people on board a chartered Pan American Airways Sikorsky seaplane flight tour of Puerto Rico, including the wife of then-Governor Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., which sank on landing. There were no injuries.

References

*Harvard reference | Author=The New York Times | Title=PORTO RICAN PARTY SAFE AS PLANE SINKS | Journal=The New York Times | Issue = August 12, 1931 | Year = 1931| Page=3
*cite web | title= Index to Politicians: Beucher to Biddison | work=The Political Graveyard | url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html | accessdate=2006-03-04
*cite web | title= Puerto Rico | work=World Statesmen | url=http://worldstatesmen.org/Puerto_Rico.html | accessdate=2006-03-04


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