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José Zaldo

mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ55640172 ↗
Source-derived summary

José Zaldo (c. 1790 – c. 1855) was one of two interim mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico, after the death of mayor Salvador de Vives. Antonio Corro was the first interim mayor, followed by José Zaldo, who was interim mayor until 31 December of that year. Corro then became mayor on 1 January 1846, and performed as mayor until 31 March 1846.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1790, 1855, 1846—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1795. For this dossier, José, Zaldo and mayor is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “José Zaldo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.