List of Cuban Ambassadors to the United States

The Cuban advocacy group at the Swiss Embassy in Washington, DC The advocacy group is housed in a building on 16th Street NW in Washington, DC .

This is a list of the Cuban ambassadors to the United States . From 1961 to 2015, the Cuban government did not have an ambassador to the United States government . The interests were represented by the protective power of Switzerland .

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Appointed	Accredited	Surname	comment	appointed during the reign of	accredited during the government of	Leave post
June 16, 1902		Gonzalo de Quesada y Aróstegui	Gonzalo de Quesada y Aróstegui (born December 15, 1868 - † January 9, 1915)	Tomás Estrada Palma	Theodore Roosevelt
Apr 9, 1909		Carlos García Vélez	general	José Miguel Gomez	William Howard Taft
Apr 8, 1910		Francisco Carrera Justice	(* August 13, 1857 in Guanabacoa, Province of Havana) He gained his early education in the church schools of his native town and studied at the University of Havana
Apr 11, 1911		Antonio Martín-Rivero y Aguiar	Lawyer, editor of the daily newspaper “La Discusión”, censor of the Junta de Patronos de la Casa de Feneficencia, envoy to the Kingdom of Italy, the Netherlands and Mexico
June 17, 1913		Pablo Desvernine y Galdós	(* 1850; † 1935) 1914 Foreign Minister	Mario García Menocal	Woodrow Wilson
July 22, 1914		Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada
Dec 13, 1923		Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza	Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza (June 27, 1872 in "La Isabel" near Jovellanos, Matanzas, Cuba; † December 7, 1956 in Havana, Cuba) when he took office, the legation was upgraded to an embassy.	Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso	Calvin Coolidge
December 3, 1925		Rafael Sanchez Aballi	1925 to 1933: Communications minister in Gerardo Machado's government, graduated from Columbia University in 1893 with an engineering degree. Owner of the Santa Lucia sugar cane plantation in Las Cañas.	Gerardo Machado
Dec 21, 1926		Orestes Ferrara	Orestes Ferrara (born July 18, 1876 in Naples , † February 16, 1972 in Rome ) Foreign Minister in the government of Gerardo Machado	Gerardo Machado
Nov 4, 1932	Nov 18, 1932	Oscar B. Cintas	(* 1887 in Sagua la Grande - 1957 in New York City ) was a sugar and railroad magnate.		Herbert Hoover
Aug 10, 1933		José T. Barón	Chargé d'affaires	Ramón Grau San Martín	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jan. 31, 1934		Manuel Márquez Sterling		Carlos Mendieta y Montefur		December 9, 1934 †
Dec 10, 1934		José T. Barón	Chargé d'affaires
Feb 6, 1935		Guillermo Patterson y de Jauregui		José Agripino Barnet
March 9, 1937	March 11, 1937	Pedro Martinez Fraga		Federico Laredo Brú
Dec 10, 1940		José T. Barón	Chargé d'affaires	Fulgencio Batista
Jan. 30, 1941	Feb 5, 1941	Aurelio Fernandez Concheso	(* June 27, 1896 in Sancti Spiritus;) Son of Serafina Valdes y Casanova and José Fernandez Concheso. Bachelor of the Colegio La Salle in Havana
Nov 30, 1944	December 20, 1944	Guillermo Belt	Born July 14, 1905 in Havana, son of Maria Ramirez Kavanagh and Jorge Alfredo Belt.	Ramón Grau San Martín
Apr 12, 1949	Apr 20, 1949	Óscar goose	(* May 12, 1903 - December 7, 1965) October 1, 1951 - March 10, 1952 Prime Minister, 1953 presidential candidate, member of Prio's government cabinet, founder of Cuban Stainless Co together with the building contractor Jones from Miami. Acquired 10,000 lb of nickel sinter from Nicaro Production which were processed into anodes	Carlos Prio	Harry S. Truman
July 11, 1950	July 25, 1950	Luis Machado		Carlos Prio
March 10, 1952	March 27, 1952	diplomatic relations suspended		Fulgencio Batista
March 27, 1952		Alberto Espinosa	Chargé d'affaires
Apr 28, 1952	May 14, 1952	Aurelio Fernandez Concheson
Apr 8, 1955	Apr 21, 1955	Miguel Ángel de la Campa y Caraveda	(8 December 1882 - 19 August 1965)		Dwight D. Eisenhower
Apr 9, 1958	Apr 16, 1958	Nicolas Arroya	(Born August 31, 1917 in Havana ; † July 13, 2008 in Washington, DC )
Feb 25, 1959	March 16, 1959	Ernesto Dihigo	(* January 23, 1896 in Havana , † 1991 in Miami )	Manuel Urrutia
			on January 3, 1961 diplomatic relations suspended	Osvaldo Dorticós	John F. Kennedy
1977		Ramon Sanchez-Parodi Montoto	Head of Interest Representation in the Swiss Mission	Fidel Castro	Jimmy Carter
1989		Jose Antonio Arbesu	Head of Interest Representation in the Swiss Mission		George HW Bush
1992		Alfonso Fraga	Head of Interest Representation in the Swiss Mission
1998		Fernando Remírez de Estenoz Barciela	Head of Interest Representation in the Swiss Mission		Bill Clinton
2001		Dagoberto Rodriguez Barrera	Head of Interest Representation in the Swiss Mission		George W. Bush
2007		Jorge Bolaños	Head of Interest Representation in the Swiss Mission
2012	Sep 18 2015	José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez	Head of Interest Representation in the Swiss Mission, from September 17, 2015, after the resumption of diplomatic relations on August 14 of the same year, official ambassador	Raúl Castro	Barack Obama

See also

• List of diplomatic missions in the United States

Web links

• Diplomatic Representation for the Republic of Cuba . Chronological listing of the Cuban ambassadors to the USA, US Department of State

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carlos Garcia Velez ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Pablo Desvernine y Galdós
3. ↑ Orestes Ferrara Marino
4. ↑ Oscar Gans
5. ↑ José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez