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Rafael Nieto Abeillé, born in Cuba and educated in Spain, while serving as a prosecutor in Matanzas, Cuba, was appointed in 1896 as a trial judge in
San Juan, Puerto Rico San Juan (, , ; Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2020 census, it is the 57th-largest city under the juri ...
. Months later, he was appointed as a prosecutor before Puerto Rico's highest appellate court before being appointed as a magistrate on the court in 1898. In July 1899, under United States rule, military governor Davis appointed him as Puerto Rico's Attorney General, a post that he held until April 1900. A speaker of the English language, he helped improve communications between Davis and the legal profession. After the 1900
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went into effect, President
William McKinley William McKinley (January 29, 1843September 14, 1901) was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. As a politician he led a realignment that made his Republican Party largely dominant in ...
on June 5 appointed him as Associate Justice of the new
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. However, he resigned nine months later, on February 26, 1901, to return to his native Cuba to serve in that country's court system until his death on January 10, 1916.


Sources

*Rivera, Luis Rafael Rivera (2007) ''La Justicia en sus Manos: historia del Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico'' Fundación Histórica del Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico (Historical Foundation for the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico), San Juan, Puerto Rico, , in Spanish Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico Puerto Rican lawyers 1916 deaths Year of birth missing {{PuertoRico-bio-stub