COLLANTES 



JOSE MARIA COLLANTES 



Lawyer; poet; official; 

 Member of Congress of 

 Cuba. 



Jose Maria Collantes was born in 

 San Cristobal, Province of Pinar del Rio, 

 on the thirteenth of November, 1877, and 

 received his early education in his native 

 town. His later education he obtained in 

 Havana where he studied at "La Gran 

 Antilla" Colegio and gained the Bachelor's 

 degree in the Institute of Havana in 1893. 



Having elected to enter the legal pro- 

 fession, Collantes pursued the law course 

 and obtained his degree as Licentiate in 

 1898. In the following year he was ap- 

 pointed Municipal Judge of the Vedado 

 (Havana), and in 1900 designated as mem- 

 ber, and Secretary, of the Tripartite Com- 

 mission of Charities for the Island of Cuba, 



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