GOMEZ 



JOSE MIGUEL GOMEZ 



Soldier; man of affairs; 

 statesman; ex-President of 

 the Republic of Cuba. 



Jose Miguel Gomez was born in the 

 year 1858 in the ancient town of Sancti 

 Spiritus and here, in a Colegio maintained 

 by the Society of Jesus, he obtained his 

 early education. After some years he pro- 

 ceeded to Havana and entered the Institute 

 there. Meantime the Ten Years' War 

 which disturbed the country from 1868 

 to 1878 was raging and at last the call to 

 arms became too urgent for young Gomez 

 to resist and, in 1876, only a short time 

 before his graduation from the Institute, 

 he joined the forces in the field and fought 

 to the end of the war in Sancti Spiritus. 



From this time on he has taken part in 

 nearly every political movement in Cuba. 

 He had a prominent and not inglorious 



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