DESVERNINE 



PABLO DESVERNINE 



Scholar; teacher; diplo- 

 matist; Secretary of State 

 in the Republic oj Cuba, 

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The Premier in President Menocal's 

 Cabinet has had the fortune to run a long 

 and distinguished career almost wholly in 

 the city where he was born and grew up. 

 Except tor two comparatively brief periods 

 spent in the United States, the first at 

 Columbia University where as a student 

 he obtained the degree of LL.B. and the 

 second in Washington where he represented 

 his country as its Minister, his life has 

 been passed in Havana where he was born 

 in the year 1854. 



He studied at the University of Havana 

 and practiced law in the Havana courts. 

 In 1899 he was appointed by General 

 Brooke, the American Military Governor, 



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