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Puerto Rican is Oldest Living Man and
Oldest U.S. Veteran
 March 2, 2005 SeniorJournal.com missed
the announcement in January that Emiliano Mercado Del Toro of Puerto
Rico was named the worlds oldest living man at 113, replacing Fred
Hale, who died on Nov. 19, 2004. Del Toro is also the oldest living U.S.
veteran, having served two months in the U.S. Army during Word War I.
He lives in Isabela, Puerto Rico, and
was born on Aug. 21, 1891 in Red Cabo. He was born the same year
in which Thomas Edison patented the radio.
Del Toro was born while Puerto Rico was
suffering through a hurricane that killed over 3,000 people.
Puerto Rico, too, was still under
Spanish control, when he was born. He saw it gain independence in 1897,
and then become a protectorate of the U.S.
The Guinness Book of World Records
officially named him the oldest man alive on January 17, 2005, when he
was 113 years and 149 days old.
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