James R. Beverley
James Rumsey Beverley was a United States lawyer and politician, appointed as Attorney General of Puerto Rico, serving 19271932. During this period, he was appointed as acting governor of Puerto Rico in 1929 and in January 1932, he was appointed Governor by President Herbert Hoover and served through 1933. He was the only nonPuerto Rican appointee offrom 1900 to 1952 who could speak Spanish before going there.
Beverley was born in Amarillo, Texas to William and Clara Beverley. He attended local schools and went to college at the University of Texas in Austin. He served in the United States Army during World War I as an artillery officer, serving in France. After completing law school at the University of Texas and starting work as a lawyer, he married Mary Smith Jarmon in 1925.
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