Santiago Oppenheimer

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Diedca. 1930
Santiago Oppenheimer
Mayor Santiago Oppenheimer Van Rhyn[a]
111th Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
In office
1906–1906
Preceded byLuis P. Valdivieso
Succeeded bySimón Moret Gallart
Personal details
Born23 May 1869[1][2]
Diedca. 1930
SpouseIsabel Fugurull
ChildrenAlfonso Oppenheimer
Professionpolitician

Santiago Oppenheimer Van Rhyn[3][note 1] (23 May 1869 – ca. 1930) was the Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1906. He was also a member of the House of Delegates of Puerto Rico.[4]

Oppenheimer was born in Ponce on 23 May 1869.[5] His parents were Carlos Juan Oppenheimer-Bettini[note 2] and Ana Van Rhyn Mitchell. He married Isabel Fugurull and they had a son named Alfonso.[6] There is a historic house in Ponce named Casa Oppenheimer.

Mayor Oppenheimer (second from the right) walks with President Theodore Roosevelt (in white) on Roosevelt's arrival in Ponce on 21 November 1906

Several sources state that Oppenheimer was the Ponce mayor who received U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt during his trip to Puerto Rico on 21 November 1906.[7][8]

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In Ponce, there is a street in Urbanización Las Delicias of Barrio Magueyes named after Oppenheimer.

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