The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Emilio del Toro Cuebas was born in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico in 1876 and died in 1955. He was a poet, lawyer, and judge. He studied at the Instituto de Segunda Enseñaza and earned his law degree at the Universidad de la Habana. In 1898, he took office as the lieutenant prosecutor of the Audiencia de lo Criminal de Mayagüez. Later, he served as a district attorney for the district courts of Humacao and San Juan, as Assistant Attorney General of Puerto Rico and was subsequently appointed as Supreme Court Prosecutor and Judge of the District Court of San Juan. In 1909, President Taft appointed him Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and in 1922. President Harding appointed him Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, a position he held from 1922 to 1943.

Works Cited

“Biografías de pasados Jueces Presidentes y pasadas Juezas Presidentas.” Tribunal Supremo, Poder Judicial de Puerto Rico, www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunal-supremo/biografias-de-pasados-jueces-presidentes-y-pasadas-juezas-presidentas/.

Delgado Cintrón, Carmelo. “El juez Emilio del Toro Cuebas, el Estudiante Antonio S. Pedreira y los Estudiantes de Derecho de 1919: Un Capítulo Desconocido de la Historia de la Escuela de Derecho.” Revista jurídica, vol. 82, no. 3, 2013, pp. 743-78, https://derecho.uprrp.edu/revistajuridica/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/01/8.EmilioDelToro.Delgado.82.3.pdf. 

Rivera de Álvarez, Josefina y Manuel Álvarez Nazario. Antología general de la literatura puertorriqueña. Ediciones Partenón, Madrid, 1982.