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José Celso Barbosa, a doctor and a politician, was born in
Bayamón, Puerto Rico in 1857. He
received his medical degree from the University of Michigan. He was a
member of
the Autonomous Party led by Baldorioty
de Castro. In 1899, he founded the
Republican Party of Puerto Rico that advocated statehood for the
island. He
was a member of the Executive Cabinet from 1900 to 1917 and a member of the Senate from 1917 to 1921. He died in
San Juan in December of 1921.
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