José de Jesús Fernández


José de Jesús Fernández was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1 July 1846 to 31 December 1846. He led the municipality under Spain's new Decreto Orgánico de 1846.

Mayoral term

De Jesús Fernández was the first mayor in Ponce to command power under the new Decreto Orgánico de 1846. Decreto Orgánico de 1846 had been had been approved on 8 January 1845, and enacted on 27 February 1846 and went in effect on 1 July 1846, the first day that De Jesús Fernández took office. This new Law for Municipalities allowed for increased centralization of public administration and greater political control over municipalities.
The municipal system resulting from Decreto Orgánico de 1846 produced the following local arrangement: