Liberalism in Cuba - Liberal Leaders

Liberal Leaders

  • José Martí, founder of the PRC and leading Cuban intellectual
  • Martín Morúa Delgado, Afro-Cuban and President of the Cuban Senate
  • Juan Gualberto Gómez, Afro-Cuban revolutionary leader, close collaborator of Martí's, served as part of the committee of consultations that drafted and amended the Constitution of 1901, and as a Representative and Senator
  • José Miguel Gómez, the first member of the Liberal Party elected to the presidency of Cuba
  • Gerardo Machado, a president of Cuba elected under the Liberal Party
  • Orestes Ferrara, a professor at the University of Havana, Cuban Secretary of State and delegate to the Constitutional Convention
  • Carlos Márquez Sterling, a leading member of the Liberal Party during the 1930s and 1940s and President of the Constitutional Convention in 1940. He later served in the first government of Fulgencio Batista.

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