DE CASTRO 



RAFAEL FERNANDEZ DE CASTRO 



Sugar planter; man of 

 affairs. 



Rafael Fernandez de Castro was 

 born in Regla, a suburb of Havana, in 

 1856, and after passing through the higher 

 grades of school at the Colegio Belen, he 

 there took his B.A. degree in 1873. He then 

 went to Seville and Madrid, graduating 

 in those famous universities as Doctor of 

 Philosophy and Letters. 



Returning to Cuba in 1878 he practiced 

 his profession as a lawyer and in 1880 

 was appointed Auxiliary Professor in the 

 University of Havana. In 1882, after a 

 competitive examination, he was appointed 

 to the Chair of Universal History. 



His first experience in politics was in 

 1 88 1 as Provincial Deputy for the District 

 of Jaruco in the Province of Havana. In 

 1886 he was elected Deputy to the Spanish 



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