José Miguel Gallardo (September 29, 1897 – July 18, 1976) was a professor at the University of Puerto Rico and two-time acting governor of Puerto Rico.

His first task on taking the office was to increase the teaching of English in schools, in preference over Spanish.

The intention was that while students would be taught in elementary school in Spanish, they would gradually be taught increasingly in English through high school.

[2] In 1941, he put the island on "war alert" after the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

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