Luis Porrata Doria

Luis Porrata-Doría Martin (1859 – ca. 1920) was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico from 11 November 1898 to 12 September 1899. He is best remembered for his forced resignation as mayor following his municipal government's poor response to the Category 5 San Ciriaco hurricane that occurred during his administration.

Early years His father was a Puerto Rican man and his mother was Spaniard. Porrata-Doria Martin was the father of Ponce architect Francisco Porrata-Doria.

Mayoral term Porrata-Doría had been a member of the Ponce municipal council in 1886, a decade before he became mayor. Porrata-Doria Martin was named mayor of Ponce by the American military governor of Puerto Rico at the time, Major General Guy Vernon Henry, after Henry removed Lloréns Echevarría as mayor of Ponce on 12 November 1898.

Porrata-Doria worked to contain the legalized prostitution problem in the city as brought up by the political activist and journalist from Ponce, Ramon Mayoral Barnes (pen name, "Canta Claro").

A devastating hurricane, San Ciriaco, had hit the southern coast of Puerto Rico on 8 August 1899. A year earlier the United States had invaded the island and installed a military central government based in San Juan. General Nelson A. Miles had been installed by the President of the United States as the first American military governor of the Island, and Porrata-Doría had been elected mayor by the people of Ponce as was the electoral practice for many decades under the old Spanish system.