José Agripino Barnet

José Agripino Barnet

José Agripino Barnet y Vinagres (born June 23, 1864 in Barcelona , Spain , † 1945 ) was a Cuban lawyer, diplomat and politician. From December 13, 1935 to May 20, 1936 he was President of the Republic of Cuba.

José A. Barnet was born in Barcelona while his parents were born in Cuba during the Spanish colonial era. He attended secondary school in Havana and studied law at the University of Havana . In 1887 he went to Paris and only returned to the island in 1902 after the establishment of the Cuban Republic. He returned to Paris as the Cuban ambassador. Between 1908 and 1915 he was consul in Liverpool , Rotterdam and Hamburg . In 1915 he worked in the Cuban State Secretariat and in 1916 he went back to Switzerland as a diplomat and later to Germany . During the reign of Ramón Grau , he was Parliamentary State Secretary.

After the resignation of President Carlos Mendieta , José A. Barnet succeeded him as parliamentary state secretary in accordance with the Cuban constitution until a new parliament was elected.

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