Background
CASANOVA, José Manuel was born on January 1, 1884 in Bahia Honda, Pinar del Río, Cuba.
CASANOVA, José Manuel was born on January 1, 1884 in Bahia Honda, Pinar del Río, Cuba.
Educated Escuela Nocturna del Centro de Dependientes, Escuela Nocturna del Centro Asturiano. Divorced; 1 son, José Manuel.
Vice-president, Compañía Azucarera Occidente, 1925-1928. President, Compañía Central Orozco, 1928. President, Cuban delegations to sugar confs. of Paris, Ostend and Brussels, 1931-1935.
Vicepres., Institute Cubano de Estabilización del Azúcar, 1934, president, 1935-1944, member board of directors since 1945. Officer, Del Mérito (Chile). Commander, Vasco Núñez de Balboa (Panama), Merit (Hungary), Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (Cuba).
Grand cross, Mérito Comercial (Cuba).
Member Cuban delegation, International Sugar Conference, London, 1935, Pan American Conference on Neutrality, Panama, 1939. Member constituent assembly, 1940. Member Partido Liberal.
Member: Asociación Nacional de Hacendados de Cuba (president), Confederación de Corporaciones Económicas de Cuba (president), Confederación de Productores de Cuba (president), Asociación de Técnicos Azucareros, Jaimanitas Biltmore Country Club, Vedado Tennis Club, Casino Español.