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The Congress of Cuba (Spanish : Congreso de Cuba) was the legislature of Cuba from 1902 until the Cuban Revolution of 1959. [1]
The Congress consisted of the 150-member Chamber of Representatives (Cámara de Representantes) and the 54-member Senate (Cámara del Senado).
The first Cuban Congress met for the first time on May 5, 1902. Generally, Congress held at least two sessions during a given year. Meetings were interrupted by the Second Occupation of Cuba after the session of September 28, 1906. Following the re-establishment of Cuban-based government in 1909 it met without interruption from January 13, 1909, until April 1933, a few months before President Gerardo Machado was overthrown. During the presidency of Ramon Grau the country's legislative apparatus was largely undertaken by Grau's administration under the auspices of the student revolutionary junta. Commencing with the provisional presidency of Carlos Mendieta a Consejo de estado (Council of State) undertook advisory legislative functions. The Council of State was abolished in April, 1936 when the Cuban Congress finally resumed its session after three years of inactivity. [2]
Name | Took office | Left office | Notes |
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Domingo Méndez Capote | 8 May 1902 | 5 April 1905 | [3] |
Manuel Sanguily Garrite | 5 April 1905 | 11 April 1906 | [3] |
Ricardo Dolz Arango | 11 April 1906 | 28 September 1906 | [3] |
Martín Morúa Delgado | 18 January 1909 | 4 April 1910 | [3] |
Antonio Gonzalo Pérez | 4 April 1910 | 16 April 1913 | [3] |
Eugenio Sánchez Agramonte | 16 April 1913 | 10 April 1917 | [3] |
Ricardo Dolz Arango | 10 April 1917 | 20 April 1921 | [3] |
Aurelio Álvarez de la Vega | 20 April 1921 | 7 April 1925 | [3] |
Clemente Vázquez Bello | 7 April 1925 | 28 September 1932 | [3] |
Alberto Barrera Fernández | 30 September 1932 | 12 August 1933 | [3] |
Justo Luis Pozo del Puerto | 13 April 1936 | 1 September 1936 | [3] |
Arturo Illas Horroutinier | 1 September 1936 | 1 June 1937 | [3] |
Lucilo de la Peña Cruz | 1 June 1937 | 15 November 1937 | [3] |
Guillermo Alonso Pujol | 15 November 1937 | 7 September 1938 | [3] |
Santiago Verdeja Neyra | 7 September 1938 | 21 November 1940 | [3] |
Antonio Beruff Mendieta | 21 November 1940 | 17 February 1942 | [3] |
Guillermo Alonso Pujol | 17 February 1942 | 30 August 1943 | [3] |
José E. Bringuier Laredo | 30 August 1943 | 26 September 1944 | [3] |
Eduardo Suárez Rivas | 26 September 1944 | 12 December 1945 | [3] |
Miguel A. Suárez Fernández | 12 December 1945 | 6 October 1950 | [3] |
Manuel A. Varona Loredo | 6 October 1950 | 15 September 1952 | [3] |
Anselmo Alliegro Milá | 31 February 1955 | 1 January 1959 | [3] [4] |
Name | Took office | Left office | Notes |
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Pelayo García Santiago | 14 May 1902 | 3 November 1902 | [5] [6] |
Rafael Portuondo y Tamayo | 18 November 1902 | 7 November 1903 | [5] [6] |
Carlos de la Torre Huerta | 7 November 1903 | 4 April 1904 | [6] |
José A. Malberty | 8 July 1904 | 7 November 1904 | [6] |
Santiago García Cañizares | 9 November 1904 | 23 April 1906 | [7] [6] |
Fernando Freyre de Andrade | 24 April 1906 | 12 October 1906 | [6] |
Orestes Ferrara Marino | 18 April 1909 | 1914 | [6] |
José Antonio González Lanuza | 1914 | 1914 | |
Ibrahim Urquiaga Arrastía | 30 August 1914 | 1915 | [6] |
Orestes Ferrara y Marino | 19 April 1915 | 1917 | [8] |
Miguel Coyula Llaguno | 7 April 1917 | 1919 | [8] [6] |
Santiago Verdeja Neyra | 1919 | 1923 | |
Clemente Vázquez Bello | 1923 | 1925 | [9] |
Ramón Zaydín | 11 April 1925 | 4 April 1927 | [8] [6] |
Rafael Guas Inclán | 11 April 1927 | 24 August 1933 | [8] [6] |
Carlos Márquez Sterling | 27 April 1936 | 3 February 1937 | [6] |
Antonio Martínez Fraga | 4 February 1937 | 18 April 1938 | [6] |
Antonio Bravo Acosta | 1937 | ? | |
Marcelino Garriga Garay | 2 September 1938 | 1 April 1940 | [6] |
José A. Cardet Góngora | 24 June 1940 | 16 September 1940 | [6] |
Gustavo Gutiérrez Sánchez | 21 November 1940 | 27 October 1941 | [6] |
Carlos Márquez Sterling | 29 October 1941 | 19 October 1942 | [6] |
Néstor Carbonell Andricaín | 19 October 1942 | 27 September 1944 | [10] [6] |
Miguel A. de León Fuentes | 27 September 1944 | 1 October 1946 | [6] |
Rubén de León García | 1 October 1946 | 19 September 1948 | [6] |
Lincoln Rodón Alvarez | 4 October 1948 | 1952 | [6] |
Gastón Godoy y Loret de Mola | 1955 | 1 January 1959 | [4] |
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