José Miguel Gomez

José Miguel Gómez 1901

José Miguel Gómez y Gómez (born July 16, 1858 in Sancti Spíritus , Cuba , † June 13, 1921 in New York City ) was a Cuban politician . From 1909 to 1913 he was the second president in the history of the Republic of Cuba after Tomás Estrada Palma .

José Miguel Gómez fought in the first phase of the War of Independence ( Guerra Larga ) against the Spanish colonial power and participated as a general in the War of Independence ( Guerra de Independencia ) from 1895 to 1898.

Gómez was a member of the Constituent Assembly of 1901 and chairman of the Liberal Party ( Partido Liberal de Cuba ).

Under his presidency

the lottery was introduced;
cockfight was allowed again;
US $ 8 million from the state budget was invested in Gómez's private companies;
a racist movement was sparked in the course of which the army murdered many blacks. The aim was to use racism and violence to exclude the blacks, many of whom had fought against Spain in the war of independence, who now have their own organizations to claim their rights in the republic.

Gómez was a member of the Freemasons in Cuba. ( See also: History of Freemasonry in Cuba ).

Individual evidence

↑ Cuba en la mano. Enciclopédia popular ilustrada. La Habana 1940, p. 1197
↑ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder : Internationales Freemaurer Lexikon . Herbig Verlag, 5th edition 2006, ISBN 978-3-7766-2478-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gómez, José Miguel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gómez y Gómez, José Miguel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Cuban politician; President of Cuba (1909-1913)
DATE OF BIRTH	July 16, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sancti Spíritus , Cuba
DATE OF DEATH	June 13, 1921
Place of death	New York City , USA

[1] Cuba en la mano. Enciclopédia popular ilustrada. La Habana 1940, p. 1197

[2] Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder : Internationales Freemaurer Lexikon . Herbig Verlag, 5th edition 2006, ISBN 978-3-7766-2478-6 .