biography
| name: |
Albizu Campos, Pedro
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pronunciation:
[albeenee kampos]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1891–1964)
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| biography:
| Revolutionary, born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, USA. He studied at Harvard (1916 BS, 1923 LLB), then joined the Nationalist Party (1924) and was the most prominent independentista of his time. He was jailed (1936–47) for advocating the violent overthrow of the US administration of Puerto Rico. He masterminded a 1950 nationalist uprising in Puerto Rico and was accused of being behind the assassination attempt (31 Oct 1950) on President Truman at Blair House. After he was sentenced to prison for 53 years, Governor Luis Muñoz Marín offered him a conditional pardon in 1953, but withdrew it after the nationalist attack on the US House of Representatives the next year. Campos spent his final years in prison. |
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