Rafael Montoro

Rafael Montoro y Valdés ( born October 24, 1852 in Havana, † August 14, 1933 ) was a Cuban politician and ambassador.

Life

Rafael Montoro y Valdés was the son of Cayetano Montoro, who took part in the separatist activities of the ten-year war in Cuba and was deported to Spain, and grandson of Clara and Jose Montoro ( baptized on June 14, 1814 at the Cathedral of Port-au -Prince, † February 1, 1875 in the town of Espíritu Santo in Havana ).

Rafael Montoro visited in 1862 and 1863, the Colegio de El Salvador in Havana. In 1864 his parents migrated with him to Europe. From 1866 he attended a school in New York City and studied at the Colegio San Francisco de Asís in Antonio Zambrana in Havana rhetoric.

During the ten-year war in Cuba Valdés studied from 1868 to 1878 in Madrid jurisprudence and wrote as Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Gumersindo de Azcárate and Emilio Castelar contributions to magazines. In addition, he was secretary of the Asociación de Artistas Españoles y Escritores ( Association of Spanish writers and artists). In Spain he met, among others, José Martí, who had been sentenced to hard labor in 1871 and deported to Spain, where he also studied law in Zaragoza.

In 1878, Valdés returned to Cuba and founded the Partido Liberal Autonomous Ista whose policies he appointed 20 years. In 1886 he was elected as a candidate of his party in the Cortes ( national assembly ) in Madrid. Two years earlier he had completed his law studies in the fields of civil and canon law at the University of Havana.

In 1897, Alfonso XIII belieh. of Spain at him the Marquesado de Montoro. A year later he was appointed as Minister of Finance in the short autonomous government in Cuba. From 1903 to 1904 Valdés was transferred as Ambassador to the Court of St James's in London. In 1908 he failed the test, through a coalition with the Partido Conservador to become foreign minister of Cuba. Two years later he was accepted as a founding member of the Academia Nacional de Artes y Letras, also joined the Academia de la Historia de Cuba. From 1921 to 1925, he was appointed by the government of Mario García Menocal in different offices.

In addition, he was appointed to the Real Academia Española.