Z A Y AS 



ALFREDO ZAYAS 



Lawyer; writer; orator; 

 Vice-president of the Re- 

 public of Cuba, iqoq-iqij. 



Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso was born on 

 the twenty -first of February, 1861, in the 

 city of Havana where his whole life has been 

 spent. His early education was obtained in 

 the colegio of Madame Boblag and the more 

 famous colegio "El Salvador" founded by 

 Luz Caballero which was then under the 

 charge of his father, Juan Bruno Zayas. In 

 1882 at the age of twenty-one he received 

 the degree of Licenciado en Derecho from 

 the University of Havana and entered up- 

 on the practice of the law. Like most 

 Cubans of his generation he shared in the 

 revolutionary activities of the time ; he was 

 a member of the Autonomist party, a con- 

 tributor of propagandist articles to various 

 newspapers, editor of a literary magazine, 



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