Background
TORRIENTE Y PERAZA, Cosme was born on June 27, 1872 in Ingenio Louisiana Isabel, JoveIlanos, Province of Matanzas. Son of Leandro José de la Tórnente and Maria Ignacia Peraza.
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Cosme TORRIENTE Y PERAZA
Edit ProfileDiplomat lawyer and public man
Career
Colonel of the Liberating Army of Cuba, 1898. Representative from Pinar del Rio to the Constituent Assembly of Louisiana Yaya, 1897. Secretary of the Provincial Government of Havana and governor ad interim, 1899.
Magistrate o£ the Courts (Audiencias) of Santa Clara and Matanzas, 1900-1903.
Secretary of legation and chargé d’affaires in Madrid, 1903. Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain, 1906.
Civil service commissioner, 1909— 1912. Secretary of State, 1913.
President of the National Conservative Party, 1914.
Senator from the Province of Matanzas and president of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, 1917-1923. President of the National Commission for War Propaganda and Relief, 1917-1918. President of the Cuban delegation to the League of Nations, 1921-1922.
President of the Commission on the Reductions of Armaments of the League of Nations, 1922.
President of the Fourth Assembly of the League of Nations, 1923. Member of the Permanent Court of International Justice of The Hague.
President of the Congressional Committee on the Reform of the Constitution, 1922. Ambassador to the United States, 1924-1925.
Secretary of Foreign Affairs, 1934.
Has been a practicing lawyer in Havana since 1906.
Membership
Colegio de Abogados of Havana. Academia de la Historia de Cuba. Consejo Nacional de Veteranos de la Independencia (delegate and vice-president).
Sociedad Cubana de Derecho Internacional (vice-president).
Inter-Amcrican High Commission. Carnegie Foundation for International Peace (member of the Consultative Council).
Comité Cubano France-Amérique (presidente). Asociación Francisco de Vitoria.
The Hispanic Society of America, New New York
Sociedad Geográfica of Madrid. Instituto da Ordem dos Advogados Brasileiros of Rio de Janeiro.
Connections
Married Estela Broch y O’Farrill. Children: Maria Luisa.
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Nationality
Cuban
Education
Awards
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Gold Medal of the Cuban War of Independence. Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic of Spain. Grand Cordon of the Order of the Crown of Italy.tempSpaceOf the Order of the Crown of Belgium. Of the Order of George I of Greece. Grand Cross of the Order of Christ of Portugal.tempSpaceGrand Official of the Order of the Polar Star of Sweden. Of the Order of the Liberator of Venezuela. Commander of the Légion d’Honneur of France.Gold Medal of the Cuban War of Independence. Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic of Spain. Grand Cordon of the Order of the Crown of Italy.tempSpaceOf the Order of the Crown of Belgium.
Of the Order of George I of Greece. Grand Cross of the Order of Christ of Portugal.tempSpaceGrand Official of the Order of the Polar Star of Sweden. Of the Order of the Liberator of Venezuela.
Commander of the Légion d’Honneur of France.