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to the Cuban cause and became a marked 

 man. He was one of the first whom the 

 Spanish General Martinez Campos caused 

 to be seized and imprisoned. He was taken 

 to the Cabana Fortress in Havana; from 

 there transported to Spain, and placed in 

 prison first at Santander and later at Mad- 

 rid. He escaped from custody, made his 

 way to Italy, thence to Paris, and later to 

 New York, meantime spreading in all the 

 cities which he visited the story of Cuba's 

 struggle for liberty. 



When the war was won and the Cuban 

 Republic was constituted, Correoso was 

 elected Member ot the Constitutional 

 Convention for Santiago and was made 

 Secretary of the Commission charged with 

 drafting the Constitution. In 1902 he was 

 elected Senator and reelected in 1906; he 

 was first Vice-president of this body. From 

 the end of the war until the second Ameri- 

 can Intervention he was President of the 

 political party to which he belonged in 

 Santiago, but since that time he has taken 

 little part in politics, preferring to devote 

 himself to the practice of his profession. 



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