José de Jesús Tizol

José de Jesús Tizol was a Puerto Rican politician, senator and delegate.

De Jesús Tizol was one of the many founders of the Ateneo Puertorriqueño.

[1] During the early 1900s, de Jesús was a member of the Puerto Rico House of Delegates for various terms.

[2] In 1917, de Jesús was elected as a member of the first Puerto Rican Senate established by the Jones-Shafroth Act.

[3] In the four-year period from 1921 to 1924 in the Senate, Tizol presided over the Criminal Law Commission and was the second highest-ranking representative in the Finance commissions and Labor.