About This Stamp
In 1990, Luis Munoz Marin (1898–1980), the first popularly elected governor of Puerto Rico, was commemorated with a stamp in the Great Americans series.
Luis Munoz Marin was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and later worked as a writer and translator in New York City. In 1926, he returned to San Juan to edit the newspaper La Democracia, was elected to the Puerto Rican Senate in 1932, and founded the Popular Democratic Party in 1938.
In 1948, Luis Munoz Marin won the first popular election for governor of Puerto Rico. He was reelected three times, serving from 1949 until 1965. He is considered the chief architect of the unique self-governing commonwealth status achieved by Puerto Rico in 1952.
The Luis Munoz Marin stamp was issued February 18, 1990, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Postmaster General Anthony M. Frank spoke at the dedication ceremony.
Stamp Art Director
Derry Noyes
For more than 40 years Derry Noyes has designed and provided art direction for close to 800 United States postage stamps and stamp products. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Hampshire College and a master of fine arts degree from Yale University.
Noyes worked as a graphics designer at Beveridge and Associates, a Washington, D.C., firm, until 1979 when she established her own design firm, Derry Noyes Graphics. Her clients have included museums, corporations, foundations, and architectural and educational institutions. Her work has been honored by American Illustration, the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington, Communication Arts, Critique magazine, Graphis, Creativity International, and the Society of Illustrators.
Before becoming an art director for the U.S. Postal Service, she served as a member of the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee from 1981 to 1983.
Noyes is a resident of Washington, D.C.