CARDENAS 



JULIO DE CARDENAS 



Lawyer; magistrate. 



Julio de Cardenas y Rodriguez was 

 born in Matanzas on the twelfth of April, 

 1 849, and began his education in the famous 

 Colegio of "San Francisco de Asis, " which 

 was then conducted by D. Jose Alonso y 

 Delgado. Thence .he passed to the Uni- 

 versity of Havana and completed the 

 studies for his degree in the Law, which he 

 began at once to practice in the office of 

 Dr. Antonio Gonzalez de Mendoza. 



In addition to his long practice of the 

 profession, extending over nearly half a 

 century, Dr. Cardenas has seen important 

 and varied service as a judge. In May, 

 1894, he was appointed Municipal Judge 

 for the District of Pilar in Havana; in 1899, 

 General Brooke, the first Military Governor 

 of Cuba, appointed him Presiding Judge 



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