Background
Doctor Guas was son of Carlos Guas Pagueras, a Cuban independence general and senator and Rosa Inclan.
Doctor Guas was son of Carlos Guas Pagueras, a Cuban independence general and senator and Rosa Inclan.
He was graduate of the University of Havana School of Law where he also later taught classes. Doctor Guas was a delegate to the Cuban Constitutional Convention 1939-1940. He served as senator (1940-1944) and governor of the Havana province (1944-1948).
He was Minister of Communications 1953-1954.
As president of the Liberal Party, was elected Vice President of Cuba in 1954 as a compromise candidate under Fulgencio Batista. Doctor Guas was elected Mayor of Havana in November 1958 but did not assume the post after Castro seized power on January 1, 1959.
A street mob burned his law office that day. He tried to join the Brigade 2506 prior to the April 1961 Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion but was rejected because of his age.
He died in Miami and is buried at Caballero Rivero Woodlawn North Park Cemetery and Mausoleum there.
Doctor Guas was lifelong member of the Liberal Party of Cuba, in 1925 was the youngest elected person to the Cuban House of Representatives, which he presided until 1933.