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lower house of Congress where he was for 

 a time Vice-president and presiding mem- 

 ber of several committees. In 1907 he 

 was made Inspector of Census for the 

 Province of Havana. 



The Cuban Government has sent Colonel 

 Mendoza upon various foreign missions: 

 to eastern Uruguay to adjust some na- 

 tional affairs, to Santo Domingo as Min- 

 ister, to Washington, and Seattle as 

 delegate to international congresses. 



He has been allied with educational mat- 

 ters of the country having occupied at one 

 time the position of sub-secretary of Pub- 

 lic Instruction and Fine Arts. He has 

 been teacher of Latin, Spanish, and Uni- 

 versal History in the Colegios "San Miguel 

 Arcangel" and " Hernandez Mederos" 

 (Havana) and Progreso (Cardenas). At 

 a pedagogical congress at the National 

 University he delivered an address upon 

 the educational differences between El 

 Nino Cubano y el Nino Americano. 



He is the author of Laz Razas (a study 

 in comparative ethnology and sociology) 

 thirty-nine chapters of which were pub- 



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