CORTINA 



JOSE MANUEL CORTINA 



Lawyer; legislator. 



Jose Manuel Cortina y Garcia was 

 born on the third of February, 1880, in San 

 Diego de Nunez, Province of Pinar del 

 Rio. He was educated in Havana, com- 

 pleting the courses for the Bachelor's 

 degree in the Jesuits' Colegio of Belen and 

 obtaining his degree of Doctor of Laws at 

 the University in 1903. 



While he was an undergraduate he was 

 elected President of the Federation of Uni- 

 versity Students, organized at the close 

 of the Spanish sovereignty, and then gave 

 signs of promise as an orator in the speech 

 he made in salutation to General Maximo 

 Gomez when he entered Havana at the 

 head of the Army of Liberation in 1899. 

 He was still a student when he took an 

 important part in the organization of the 



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