Santiago Oppenheimer

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Oppenheimer and the second or maternal family name is Van Rhyn.

Santiago Oppenheimer
Mayor Santiago Oppenheimer Van Rhyn[a]
111th Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
In office
1906–1906
Preceded byLuis P. Valdivieso
Succeeded bySimón Moret Gallart
Personal details
Born23 May 1869[1][2]
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Diedca. 1930
SpouseIsabel Fugurull
ChildrenAlfonso Oppenheimer
Residence(s)Ponce, Puerto Rico
Professionpolitician

Santiago Oppenheimer Van Rhyn[3][note 1] (23 May 1869 – ca. 1930) was the Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1906. He was also a member of the House of Delegates of Puerto Rico.[4]

Oppenheimer was born in Ponce on 23 May 1869.[5] His parents were Carlos Juan Oppenheimer-Bettini[note 2] and Ana Van Rhyn Mitchell. He married Isabel Fugurull and they had a son named Alfonso.[6] There is a historic house in Ponce named Casa Oppenheimer.

Mayor Oppenheimer (second from the right) walks with President Theodore Roosevelt (in white) on Roosevelt's arrival in Ponce on 21 November 1906


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  1. ^ U.S. Passport Applications, 1795–1925
  2. ^ Puerto Rico, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1901-1962
  3. ^ Commercial guide and business directory of Porto Rico. 1910. Page 269. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
  4. ^ Commercial guide and business directory of Porto Rico. 1910. Pages 85, 91, and 94. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
  5. ^ The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington D.C.; Series Title: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at San Juan, Puerto Rico, 10/07/1901 - 06/30/1948; NAI Number: 2945834; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: 85. See also, "Puerto Rico, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1901-1962." Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operation, Inc., 2012; see also, Selected Crew List and Manifests. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
  6. ^ Santiago Guillermo 'Jimmy' Oppenheimer. Accessed 26 May 2016.


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