Samuel R. Quiñones

• Honorific Prefix — The Honorable • Name — Samuel Ramón Quiñones • Order1 — 5th • Office1 — President of the Senate of Puerto Rico • Term Start1 — 1949 • Term End1 — 1968 • Predecessor1 — Luis Muñoz Marín • Successor1 — Rafael Hernández Colón • Office2 — Speaker of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico • Term Start2 — 1941 • Term End2 — 1943 • Predecessor2 — Miguel A. García Méndez • Successor2 — Rafael Arrillaga Torrens • Office3 — President pro tempore of the Senate of Puerto Rico • Term Start3 — 1945 • Term End3 — 1948 • Predecessor3 — Francisco M. Susoni • Successor3 — Luis Negrón López • State Senate — Puerto Rico • District — at-large • Term Start — 1944 • Term End — 1968 • Party — Popular Democratic Party (PPD) • Birth Name — Samuel Ramón Quiñones Quiñones • Born — 29 October 1903 • Birthplace — San Juan, Puerto Rico • Died — 11 March 1976 • Place of death — San Juan, Puerto Rico • Resting Place — Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery • Occupation — Politician, attorney • Education — University of Puerto Rico School of Law (JD)

Samuel Ramón Quiñones Quiñones was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico to his parents Don Francisco Quiñones and Doña Dolores Quiñones. Graduated from Central High School in Santurce. He studied law at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law. During the 1930s and 1940s, he served on various organizations: President of Ateneo Puertorriqueño (1934–1937), President of Colegio de Abogados (1943–1945), President of House of Representatives in Puerto Rico (1941–1943), Vice President for the Senate of Puerto Rico (1945), and elected President of PPD (Partido Popular Democrático) in 1938. He had also 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 Constitutional Convention of Puerto Rico that drafted the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. A prolific poet and writer, he founded the literary magazine called Índice. In 1941 he published an essay book: Temas y letras. Quiñones died in San Juan, Puerto Rico by his mouth cancer on March 11, 1976, at the age of 71. Was buried at Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery in San Juan, Puerto Rico.