Félix Córdova Dávila
| Félix Córdova Dávila | |
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Córdova Dávila, circa 1919.
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| Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico | |
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In office August 7, 1917 – April 11, 1932 |
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| Preceded by | Luis Muñoz Rivera |
| Succeeded by | José Lorenzo Pesquera |
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| Born |
November 20, 1878 Vega Baja, Puerto Rico |
| Died | December 3, 1938 (aged 60) San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Political party | Union Party of Puerto Rico |
| Spouse(s) | Mercedes Díaz Collazo Patria Martínez |
| Alma mater | National University Law School |
| Profession | Politician, judge |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Félix Lope María Córdova Dávila (November 20, 1878 – December 3, 1938) was a political leader and judge from Puerto Rico who served as Puerto Rico's fourth Resident Commissioner in Congress and later as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.
Félix Córdova Dávila was born in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. His parents, Lope Córdova y Thibault and María Concepción Dávila y Dávila, died while he was very young, and he was placed in the care of his cousin, Dr. Gonzalo María Córdova y Dávila in Jayuya. He began studies on his own based in the extensive library of his cousins Gonzalo and Ulpiano. During his adolescence, he attended the public schools in Manati while working at a drugstore owned by another cousin, Clemente Ramírez de Arellano Córdova. After the United States acquired Puerto Rico in 1898, Córdova Dávila, knowing very little English, decided to invest the earnings of a book of poetry that he produced to attend law school in Washington, DC. Attracted by low tuition costs, he enrolled at Howard University Law School, not aware of it being a black college. Well treated by his fellow students, all black, he completed his first year there as the only white student, before transferring to National University Law School in Washington, D.C., now known as George Washington University Law School, where he obtained his Masters of Law. Before returning to Puerto Rico, he was denied a license to practice law in the District of Columbia because Puerto Ricans were not yet United States citizens. He successfully protested before the District Bar and was admitted to practice in the nation's capital. He was admitted to practice law in Puerto Rico in 1903.
In 1906, Córdova married Mercedes Díaz Collazo, with whom he had several children: Jorge Luis in 1907, who would succeed Córdova Dávila both as a Associate Justice in the Puerto Rico Supreme Court as well as in Congress (1969–1972), Félix Lope (1909), and Enrique (1913).
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