Anselmo Alliegro y Milá

Anselmo Alliegro y Milá (born December 8, 1899 in Yaguajay , † November 22, 1961 in New York City ) was a Cuban lawyer and politician , from January 1 to 2, 1959, the executive president of Cuba.

Life

In the course of his political career, first in the Liberal Party (Partido Liberal) and later in the Progressive Party (Partido Progresista), he held the following offices: Mayor of the city of Baracoa , Member of Parliament, Minister of Commerce, Minister of Education, Minister of Housing, Prime Minister (1944) and President of the Senate .

At the age of only 20, he won the elections for the Cuban House of Representatives for the first time in 1920, making him the youngest democratically elected parliamentarian in Cuba's history. He belonged to the liberal party Gerardo Machados , which was elected president by a large majority in 1925, but later established an authoritarian regime that was overthrown by the democratic revolution in 1933. As a result of the revolution, Alliegro had to go into exile, which he spent in New York. He later returned to Cuba and continued his political career. After he came into the cabinet as a minister without portfolio during Batista's first presidency (1940-1944), he later led three ministries and the office of prime minister at the same time.

Before Fulgencio Batista fled the country in the early hours of New Year's Day in 1959, faced with the impending defeat of his troops against the rebel army led by Fidel Castro , he presented Alliegro, who was then President of the Cuban Senate, with his resignation. Alliegro then took over the office of President. The previous Vice President, Gonzalo Güell y Morales de los Ríos , had resigned from his post a few weeks earlier after his election as mayor. Alliegro, who had been a political ally of Batista, resigned from the office of executive president on January 2nd. On January 3, the rebel army installed Manuel Urrutia as the new president.

Alliegro was the son of the Italian immigrant Miguel Alliegro Esculpino and Donatila Milá from Catalonia . He was married to Ana Durán, with whom he had a son, for the second time. He had a daughter from his first marriage.

Web links

Willy Abela: Seis Presidentes en meses, por más de 50 años de poder de los Castro (Spanish) In: Secretos de Cuba of September 30, 2010, accessed on May 1, 2011
Possible Contenders in the next Presidential Elections (English) In: Gente (American edition) of January 5, 1958, republished in: Cuba Information Archives , accessed on May 1, 2011

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Alfredo Durán (Alliegros stepson) in an interview with the Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project of the University of Miami (part 1), accessed on September 21, 2012 (Spanish)

personal data
SURNAME	Alliegro y Milá, Anselmo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Alliegro, Anselmo; Alliegro Milá, Anselmo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Cuban politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 8, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Yaguajay , Cuba
DATE OF DEATH	November 22, 1961
Place of death	New York City , USA

[Durán-1] Alfredo Durán (Alliegros stepson) in an interview with the Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project of the University of Miami (part 1), accessed on September 21, 2012 (Spanish)