FREYRE DE ANDRADE 



he was elected alternate President with 

 General Capote. 



When the legal division of the Govern- 

 ment was organized under the American 

 Intervention, Freyre de Andrade was made 

 Magistrate of the Audiencia of Havana. 

 Later General Wood appointed him Prose- 

 cuting Attorney (Fiscal) of the Audiencia, 

 and when the Republic was constituted 

 President Palma appointed him Fiscal of 

 the Supreme Court. This office he resigned 

 to become Secretary of Gobernacion in 

 1905. In the same year he was elected 

 Representative and was also chosen Presi- 

 dent of the House of Representatives where 

 he continued until Governor Magooti, at 

 the second American Intervention, sus- 

 pended the functions of Congress. 



General Freyre de Andrade was one of 

 the founders of the Republican party. 

 For a period he abstained frorn politics on 

 account of his duties as Magistrate, but 

 after becoming Secretary of Gobernacion 

 he took part in the activities of the 

 Moderate party a^s long as it survived, 

 whereupon he shared in organizing the 



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