Luis Antonio Robles Suárez
(1849-1899)
Afro-Colombian lawyer and politician
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Luis Antonio Robles Suárez (24 October 1849 – 22 September 1899) also known as "El Negro Robles", was a Colombian lawyer and politician. He was the first Afro-Colombian to hold a cabinet-level ministry in Colombia serving as Secretary of the Treasury and Public Credit during the administration of President Aquileo Parra Gómez, as well as being the first Afro-Colombian Congressperson as Member of the Chamber of Representatives for Magdalena, and the first Afro-Colombian Governor of a Department, as the 16th President of the Sovereign State of Magdalena. He graduated a lawyer from Our Lady of the Rosary University in 1872, thus also becoming the first Afro-Colombian to ever serve as a lawyer in Colombia.
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24 October 1849 Riohacha, La Guajira, Colombia
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| Died |
22 September 1899 (aged 49) Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia
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| Zodiac | Scorpio |
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