Antonio Arias (mayor)

Antonio Arias Suñé (c. 1847 – 4 July 1913) was the mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico from 1903 to 1904.

His parents were José María Arias Tellechea, from Venezuela, and Mercedes Suñé.

He married Rosalía Ríos Ovalle, with whom he had seven children: Jose Maria, Rodulfo, Angel, Teodoro, Rosa Maria, Rafael, and Carlos Juan.

[1] Due to a new law that had been passed in the Puerto Rico Legislature the previous year (1902), which annexed the municipality of Guayanilla to the municipality of Ponce, mayor Arias Suñé was, in effect, the mayor of Guayanilla as well, during his one-year term as mayor of Ponce.

The structure was used for barrio offices of sanitation, police, and firemen.