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Corps of the Army of Liberation. By the 

 Fourth Corps he was elected to the As- 

 sembly of Yaya and there chosen Subsecre- 

 tary of Foreign Relations, later becoming 

 Secretary. He retired at the close of the 

 war with the rank of Colonel. 



He has held important appointments 

 both civil and medical. During the Amer- 

 ican Intervention he was made Director of 

 the Civil Hospital of Sagua la Grande; in 

 iqoi he was appointed Health Officer for 

 the Province of Santa Clara; during the 

 first Cuban Government he was elected 

 Member and President of the Council of 

 the Province of Santa Clara and Governor 

 pro tern of the Province, and in January, 

 1909, he was appointed Secretary of Gov- 

 ernment (Gobernacion) in the cabinet of 

 President Jose Miguel Gomez. In 19 13 

 he was elected Senator for the full period 

 of eight years on the Fusion ticket. He is 

 chairman of the Committee on Sanitation. 



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