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Puerto Rican politician and Spanish admiral

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Power and the second or maternal family name is Giralt.

CaptainRamón Power y Giralt (October 7, – June 10, ) was a Spanish Navy officer and politician.

According to historian Lidio Cruz Monclova, Power was among the first native-born Puerto Ricans to refer to himself as a "Puerto Rican" and to fight for the equal representation of Puerto Rico before the Cortes of Cádiz, the government of Spain at the time.

Early years

Power was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico to Joaquín Power y Morgan, a Spaniard from the Basque Country (of Irish and French descent) who came to Puerto Rico in connection with the Compañía de Asiento de Negros, which regulated the slave trade in the island, and María Josefa Giralt y Santaella, a Catalan from Barcelona.^[1][2][3] His great-grandfather Peter Power was an Irishman from Waterford who