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Flix Lope Mara Crdova Dvila was a political leader and judge from Puerto Rico who served as Puerto Ricos fourth Resident Commissioner in Congress and later as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.
Flix Crdova Dvila was born in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. His parents, Lope Crdova y Thibault and Mara Concepcin Dvila y Dvila, died while he was very young, and he was placed in the care of his cousin, Dr. Gonzalo Mara Crdova y Dvila 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 Ramrez de Arellano Crdova. After the United States acquired Puerto Rico in 1898, Crdova Dvila, 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
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