Samuel R. Quiñones

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Samuel R. Quiñones was a prominent attorney in Puerto Rico who served for twenty years as the fifth President of the Senate of Puerto Rico, from 1949 to 1968, by far the longest serving Senate President. He had previously served as Speaker of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico in the early 1940s. During his terms in office as President of the Senate, he commissioned the famed Toro & Ferrer architectural firm to design the Senate Annex office building, which was inaugurated in 1955.

Between 1951 and 1952 he served as one of the most prominent members of the Constituent Convention of Puerto Rico that drafted the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

A prolific poet and writer, he served as President of the Puerto Rico Bar Association and the Puerto Rican Atheneum.

Preceded by Luis Muñoz Marín

President of the Senate of Puerto Rico 1949-68

Succeeded by Rafael Hernández Colón

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• "Legisladores puertorriqueños 1900-1996", by Nestor Rigual
• "Elecciones y Partidos Politicos de Puerto Rico 1809-2000", by Fernando Bayron Toro