CARDENAS 



RAUL DE CARDENAS Y ECHARTE 



Lawyer; writer. 



Raul de Cardenas y Echarte was 



born on the twenty-fourth of December, 

 1884, in Havana, where he was educated, 

 passing through the successive stages of 

 primary school, the Institute where he 

 gained the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and 

 the University where in 1905 he was made 

 Doctor of Laws. 



He entered at once on the practice of his 

 profession. In November, 1910, he was 

 elected Representative for the Province 

 of Havana for the term ending in 191 5, and 

 in 1 914 reelected for the term ending in 

 1919. In the same year he was chosen 

 Secretary of the House of Representative? 

 and reelected to this office also in 191 5. 



Dr. Cardenas has written various papers 

 of a legal character, among them, El Rc- 



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