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.
Inaugurated in May, Gômez immediately blundered when he selected his cabinet without consulting army chief Batista. Relations deteriorated further when Gômez opposed a bill Batista had had introduced to establish a 9 cent tax on every bag of sugar produced, for construction of army-operated schools. Obsessed with the importance of reasserting civilian authority, Gomez felt that army control over rural education would erode the constitution and civilian power. Three days after Gômez vetoed the rural schools bill, he was impeached by the Senate, becoming the first Cuban president removed from office by Congress.
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.
