Luis Felipe Negrón Fernández (April 29, 1910 - December 1, 1986) was a Puerto Rican

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who served as an asssociate justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico and later as the ninth

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from 1971 till 1972. He was born in

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on April 29, 1910. In 1934 he graduated in Law from the

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and soon after devoted himself to public service. He was head of the Legal Division of the State Insurance Fund (1935-38), District Attorney in Humacao (1938-40), Assistant Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico (1940-45) and

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(1947-48). In 1948 President

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appointed him Associate Judge of the

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and in 1957 he became position of Chief Justice, appointed by Governor

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. Soon after his retirement in 1971, he was appointed for the second time to hold the position of Chief Justice by governor

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; occupied it until 1972 when he resigned the position. Luis Negrón Fernández died December 1, 1986, in

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, at age 76. His son Antonio Negrón García also served Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico from 1974 to 2000.

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