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{{short description|Puerto Rican politician}}
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{{Infobox medical person
|name              = José Julio Henna Pérez
|image             = File:Jose Julio Henna, en Junta Revolucionaria Puertorriqueña en Nueva York, 1895 (DP34E).jpg
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|caption           = Julio J. Henna at the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee in New York in 1895
|birth_date        = {{birth-date|24 May 1848}}
|birth_place       = [[Ponce, Puerto Rico]]
|death_date        = {{d-da|2 February 1924|24 May 1848}}
|nationality       = [[Puerto Rican people|Puerto Rican]]
|profession        = [[Physician]]
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|known_for         = Co-founder of the [[French Hospital (Manhattan)|New York City French Hospital]],<br />Co-founder of the Puerto Rico section of the [[Cuban Revolutionary Party]] in New York
|years_active      = 1872&ndash;1924
|education         = [[Columbia University]] ([[Doctor of Medicine|MD]])
|work_institutions = [[French Hospital (Manhattan)|New York City French Hospital]], [[Bellevue Hospital]].
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|spouse            =Ada Bush Henna
|death_place       =[[New York City, NY]] US}}
'''Julio J. Henna''' (24 May 1848 – 2 February 1924)  was a [[Puerto Rican people|Puerto Rican]] physician and political figure. Henna participated in the founding of the Puerto Rico Section of the Cuban Revolutionary Party in New York as part of the section's faction that supported the annexation of [[Puerto Rico]] to the United States.<ref name="ponce">[http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=09012901&page=4 Encyclopedia Puerto Rico.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190352/http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=09012901&page=4 |date=2016-03-03 }}</ref>
==Early years==
Jose Julio Henna Perez<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ck1MUnU8T88C&pg=PA67 ''From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City.''] Virginia Sánchez Korrol. Page 67. University of California Press. 1983. Retrieved 8 January 2014.</ref> was born at 24 Isabel street in [[Ponce, Puerto Rico]],<ref name="ponce"/> on 24 May 1848.<ref name="Lorenzo A. Balasquide 1984. Page 39">Lorenzo A. Balasquide. ''Medicos Notables del Antaño Ponceño.'' Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1984. Page 39.</ref>  His parents were Jose Henna Darricot – an Englishman – and Maria del Rosario Perez y Garcia, a Puerto Rican member of the privileged upper class.<ref name="Lorenzo A. Balasquide 1984. Page 39"/>
==Political incursion==
[[File:Junta Revolucionaria.jpg|thumb|left|Julio J. Henna (seated, center) shown with the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee in New York in 1895]]
When he was twenty years old, Henna designed a plan to liberate Puerto Rico from [[Spain|Spanish]] colonialism. The plan failed when the authorities discovered it and he was jailed as a result. However, he was set free through the general amnesty which followed the Spanish revolution, which also ended the reign of [[Queen Isabel II]]. In spite of this, in 1869 [[General Sanz]] stated to Henna that it would be best if he left the Island. Henna moved to New York and studied medicine at [[Columbia University]], earning his medical degree on 23 February 1872.<ref>Lorenzo A. Balasquide. ''Medicos Notables del Antaño Ponceño.'' Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1984. Page 40.</ref> From New York, Henna continued to support the cause of independence for Puerto Rico.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rzyA0BhHHCIC&pg=PA187 ''Las Fiestas Populares de Ponce y La Villa de Ponce.''] Ramon Marin. 1875. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Imprenta El Vapor. 72 pages. (Reprinted September 1994. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. 281 pages. Page 15.[Socorro Girón. "Ramon Marin y su Tiempo." (foreword)]) Retrieved 23 July 2012.</ref>
==Career==
In 1880, Henna founded, together with Drs. Chauveau, Deberceau, Muvial, and Ferrer, the [[French Hospital (Manhattan)|New York City French Hospital]] at 330 West 30th street.<ref name="Lorenzo A. Balasquide 1984. Page 41">Lorenzo A. Balasquide. ''Medicos Notables del Antaño Ponceño.'' Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1984. Page 41.</ref> He became medical director of the institution and was a member of the medical faculty at [[Bellevue Hospital]].<ref name="Lorenzo A. Balasquide 1984. Page 41"/>
==Death==
Henna died on 2 February 1924. He was laid to rest at [[Panteón Nacional Román Baldorioty de Castro]] in [[Ponce, Puerto Rico]].<ref name="Lorenzo A. Balasquide 1984. Page 42">Lorenzo A. Balasquide. ''Medicos Notables del Antaño Ponceño.'' Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1984. Page 42.</ref>
==Legacy==
A street in the city of Ponce is named after Dr. Julio J. Henna. It intersects Calle Dr. Virgilio Biaggi, in the Extension Mariani sector of Barrio [[Canas Urbano]].<ref name="Lorenzo A. Balasquide 1984. Page 42"/> A gold pendant believed to have belonged to Ponce area cacique [[Agueybana II|Agueybana]], and acquired by Dr. Henna, was displayed at the ''[[Biblioteca Municipal de Ponce|Gabinete de Lectura de Ponce]]'' around 1910, and is currently on display at the [[Smithsonian Institution]].<ref>[http://www2.pr.gov/oech/oech/Documents/Lo%20mas%20Reciente/Libros%20Municipios/Ponce.pdf ''Ponce: Notas para su historia.''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618080734/http://www2.pr.gov/oech/oech/Documents/Lo%20mas%20Reciente/Libros%20Municipios/Ponce.pdf |date=18 June 2018 }} Mariano Vidal Armstrong. Oficina Estatal de Conservación Histórica. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1989. page 8. Accessed 19 February 2018.</ref>
==See also==
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* [[List of Puerto Ricans]]
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