Background
Miguel Mariano Gomez was born in Sancti Spiritus on 6 October 1890. He was a son of José Miguel Gomez, the second president
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Miguel Mariano Gomez was born in Sancti Spiritus on 6 October 1890. He was a son of José Miguel Gomez, the second president
With the backing of Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar and the Liberal Party, Gômez easily won the presidential election of January 1936, defeating former President Mariano García Menocal.
He was a conservative politician of Cuba’s traditional governing elite; he served 12 years in the House of Representatives and was mayor of Havana for a while during the administration of Gerardo Machado y Morales. However, he attacked the repressive nature of the Machado regime.