| Luis Antonio Robles | |
| Office: | Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia |
| Term Start: | 1 April 1892 |
| Term End: | 1 April 1896 |
| Constituency: | Antioquia State |
| Term Start2: | 1 March 1876 |
| Term End2: | 1 April 1876 |
| Constituency2: | Magdalena State |
| Order3: | 16th |
| Office3: | Magdalena StatePresident of the Sovereign State of Magdalena |
| Term Start3: | 1 April 1878 |
| Term End3: | 25 June 1879 |
| Predecessor3: | Manuel Davila García |
| Successor3: | José María Campo Serrano |
| Office4: | Colombian Secretary of the Treasury and Public Credit |
| Term Start4: | 1 April 1876 |
| Term End4: | 1 April 1877 |
| President4: | Aquileo Parra Gómez |
| Predecessor4: | José María Villamizar Gallardo |
| Successor4: | José María Quijano Wallis |
| Birth Name: | Luis Antonio Robles Suárez |
| Birth Date: | 24 October 1849 |
| Birth Place: | Riohacha, Riohacha, Magdalena, New Granada |
| Death Place: | Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia |
| Nationality: | Colombian |
| Party: | Liberal |
| Alma Mater: | Our Lady of the Rosary University (JD) |
| Profession: | Lawyer |
Luis Antonio Robles Suárez (24 October 1849 – 22 September 1899) also known as "El Negro Robles", was a Colombian lawyer and politician. He was the first Afro-Colombian to hold a cabinet-level ministry in Colombia serving as Secretary of the Treasury and Public Credit during the administration of President Aquileo Parra Gómez, as well as being the first Afro-Colombian Congressperson as Member of the Chamber of Representatives for Magdalena, and the first Afro-Colombian Governor of a Department, as the 16th President of the Sovereign State of Magdalena.[1] He graduated a lawyer from Our Lady of the Rosary University in 1872, thus also becoming the first Afro-Colombian to ever serve as a lawyer in Colombia.[2] [3]
thumb|left|Oil on canvas painting of Luis Antonio Robles by Epifanio Julián Garay y Caicedo.
Born on 24 October 1849 in the hamlet of Camarones in the Municipality of Riohacha, then part of the Riohacha Province, in the Department of Magdalena, New Granada; his parents were Luis Antonio Robles and Manuela Súarez, both black freedpersons of moderate means.[4]
He died on 22 September 1899 of cystitis infection in his longtime residence le Maison Doré in Bogotá at the age of 49,[5] [6] not having married and with no descendants still recovering from the death of his mother earlier that year.[1] His childhood home in Camarones was designated a national monument, and his remains, which had been interred at the Central Cemetery of Bogotá,[5] were transported to be interred at his childhood home which operates as a Cultural House, Library and Training Center.[3] [7]