James R. Beverley
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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.
Of the fifteen non-Puerto Ricans appointed by the President of the United States to serve as governor of Puerto Rico between 1900 and 1952, Beverley was the only one who spoke Spanish, the language of the local people in the island. In his short career as governor of Puerto Rico, he was faced with a major hurricane, the end of Prohibition on the island, and a controversy over birth control. Beverley returned to Austin, Texas in the 1960s and lived there until his death in 1967.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ A Guide to the James R. Beverley Papers, 1904-1967. Briscoe Center for American History. University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
- The New York Times (1931), "PORTO RICAN PARTY SAFE AS PLANE SINKS", The New York Times (August 12, 1931) Unknown parameter
|Page=ignored (|page=suggested) (help) - "Index to Politicians: Beucher to Biddison". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved 2006-03-04.
- "Puerto Rico". World Statesmen. Retrieved 2006-03-04.
| Preceded by Horace Mann Towner |
Governor of Puerto Rico 1929 (Acting) |
Succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. |
| Preceded by Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. |
Governor of Puerto Rico 1932–1933 (Acting) |
Succeeded by Robert Hayes Gore |
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