Miguel Mariano Gómez

Miguel Mariano Gómez ( Miguel Mariano Gómez y Arias, born October 6, 1890 in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, † October 26, 1950 in Havana, Cuba) son of Cuban President José Miguel Gómez was a Cuban politician and from 20 May to December 24, 1936 President of Cuba.

At the University of Havana Gómez studied law and became a lawyer then. In 1914 he became a member of the Cuban Parliament and retained his seat until he was elected in 1926 as mayor of Havana. Together with his father he took part in an armed revolution against the incumbent president, General Mario García Menocal, in part. He belonged to the opposition against the dictator Gerardo Machado y Morales. It was not until 1933, after the fall of Machado, he could come back from New York's exile in Cuba. Under the presidency of Carlos Mendieta y Gómez Montefur was again mayor of Havana.

His political prestige won Miguel Gómez as mayor of Havana. Under his leadership, among others, the Women's Clinic Hospital de Maternidad, the Children's Hospital Hospital Infantil and the school Escuela José Miguel Gomez were built. He was regarded as socially committed politician who achieved much for his city.

With this prestige from his tenure as mayor Gómez in 1936 President of the Republic of Cuba. His plans to set up 3,000 rural schools led to clashes with the army chief, Fulgencio Batista. As Gómez refused a bill passed by the Parliament Act, which provided for the financing of rural schools through a sugar control run, he tenure was deposed by Parliament after only seven months.