The Political Graveyard: Cuba

Cuba

Cuba information:

Population: 11,184,023
Land area 42,803 square miles.
Capital: Havana (La Habana)

Neighboring areas:

The Political Graveyard:

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Cuba
U.S. Consuls in Cuba
U.S. Politicians who were born in Cuba
U.S. Politicians who lived in Cuba
U.S. Politicians who died in Cuba
Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of U.S. Politicians in Cuba

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Cuba

James G. Forbes (Special Diplomatic Agent 1821) Gilbert L. Thompson (Special Diplomatic Agent 1821) James Biddle (Special Diplomatic Agent 1822) Thomas Randall (Special Diplomatic Agent 1823-24) Richard K. Call (Special Diplomatic Agent 1829-30) William Shaler (Special Diplomatic Agent 1832) Jeremy Robinson (Special Diplomatic Agent 1832-34) Richard J. Cleveland (Special Diplomatic Agent 1833) Nicholas Philip Trist (Special Diplomatic Agent 1834) Alexander H. Everett (Special Diplomatic Agent 1840) Tully R. Wise (Special Diplomatic Agent 1842) William Linn Brown (Special Diplomatic Agent 1846) Alexander Slidell McKenzie (Special Diplomatic Agent 1846) Charles Morris (Special Diplomatic Agent 1850) Foxhall A. Parker (Special Diplomatic Agent 1851) Charles W. Davis (Special Diplomatic Agent 1854) Thomas Biddle (Special Diplomatic Agent 1866) Herbert G. Squiers (Minister 1902-05) Edwin V. Morgan (Minister 1905-10) John B. Jackson (Minister 1910-11) Arthur M. Beaupré (Minister 1911-13) William E. Gonzales (Minister 1913-19) Boaz Long (Minister 1919-21) Enoch Herbert Crowder (Ambassador 1923-27) Noble Brandon Judah (Ambassador 1927-29) Harry F. Guggenheim (Ambassador 1929-33) Sumner Welles (Ambassador 1933) Jefferson Caffery (Ambassador 1934-37) J. Butler Wright (Ambassador 1937-39) George S. Messersmith (Ambassador 1940-42) Spruille Braden (Ambassador 1942-45) R. Henry Norweb (Ambassador 1945-48) Robert Butler (Ambassador 1948-51) Willard L. Beaulac (Ambassador 1951-53) Arthur Gardner (Ambassador 1953-57) Earl E. T. Smith (Ambassador 1957-59) Philip W. Bonsal (Ambassador 1959-60)

U.S. Consuls in Cuba

(may be incomplete!)

Antilla: George Bayliss (Consular Agent 1907-16) Joseph F. Buck (Vice Consul 1919) Frederick W. Hinke (Vice Consul 1924) Horace J. Dickinson (Consul 1924-43) George Reed Emerson (Vice Consul 1926) R. Horton Henry (Vice Consul 1929-30) Myles Standish (Vice Consul 1932) Juan A. Reed (Consular Agent 1949)
Baracoa: Alfredo T. Triay (Consul 1894-98) Paulino Laguno (Vice Consul 1897-98) Perry Glasscock (Consul 1898)
Caibarien: P. B. Anderson (Consular Agent 1903-16) Milton S. Lankford (Consular Agent 1924-26) Andrew E. McNamara (Consular Agent 1929-32) Federico Causo (Consular Agent 1943)
Camagüey: Franklin Hawley (Vice Consul 1943) Arthur W. Feldman (Vice Consul 1949)
Cardenas: Franklin Gage (Consul 1843-46) N. Cross (Consular Agent 1862-66) Joseph L. Hance (Commercial Agent 1897-98) Francisco Cayro (Vice Commercial Agent 1897-98) German Bülee (Commercial Agent 1898) George A. Brenneis (Consular Agent 1914-16)
Cienfuegos: Samuel McLean (Consul 1842-44) Franklin Lippincott (Consul 1844-76) German Barrio (Consular Agent 1863-67) Owen McGarr (Consul 1897) Juan J. Casanova (Vice Consul 1897) Owen McFarr (Consul 1898) Max J. Baehr (Consul 1902-14) Buenaventura Carbo (Vice Consul 1914) Richard M. Bartleman (Consul 1914-17) George B. Starbuck (Vice Consul 1916-29) S. Le Roy Layton (Vice Consul 1916) Charles S. Winans (Consul 1917-19) Frank Bohr (Consul 1919-25) Lucien N. Sullivan (Consul 1926-29) Knox Alexander (Consul 1932) Hernan C. Vogenitz (Vice Consul 1943)
Havana (La Habana): Joseph M. Yznardi (Consul 1797-98) Daniel Hawley (Consul 1797-99) John Morton (Consul 1799-1802) Robert Young (Consul 1802-05) Henry Hill, Jr. (Consul 1805-07) Stephen Kingston (Consul 1812-17) George P. Stevenson (Agent for Commerce and Seamen 1817-19) Michael Hogan (Agent for Commerce and Seamen 1819-20) John Warner (Agent for Commerce and Seamen 1821-25) Thomas W. Rodney (Commercial Agent 1825-29) Daniel P. Cook (Commercial Agent 1828-29) William Shaler (Consul 1829-33) Nicholas Philip Trist (Consul 1833-41) James S. Calhoun (Consul 1841-42) Robert B. Campbell (Consul 1842-50) Allen F. Owen (Consul 1851) William Lewis Sharkey (Consul 1851-53) Alexander M. Clayton (Consul 1853) Roger Barton (Consul 1854-56) Andrew K. Blythe (Consul 1856-57) Andrew K. Blythe (Consul General 1857-58) Charles J. Helm (Consul General 1858-61) Thomas Savage (Vice Consul 1858-69) Robert W. Shufelt (Consul General 1861-63) Horatio Ballard (Consul General 1863) William T. Minor (Consul General 1864-65) Henry C. Hall (Consul General 1873-77) Adam Badeau (Consul General 1882-84) Fitzhugh Lee (Consul General 1896-98) Joseph A. Springer (Vice Consul 1898) Edward S. Bragg (Consul General 1902-03) Frank Steinhart (Consul General 1906) James Linn Rodgers (Consul General 1914-17) Joseph A. Springer (Vice Consul 1914-21) Henry M. Wolcott (Consul 1916) Raoul F. Washington (Vice Consul 1916-19) Heaton W. Harris (Consul General 1918-20) Richard C. Beer (Vice Consul 1919) Hernan C. Vogenitz (Vice Consul 1919) Henry C. von Struve (Consul 1919) Francis M. Sack (Vice Consul 1919) Charles B. Hosmer (Vice Consul 1919) Henry L. Fonda (Vice Consul 1919) Carlton Bailey Hurst (Consul General 1921-26) Fletcher Warren (Vice Consul 1924-25) Sheridan Talbott (Vice Consul 1924) Arthur C. Frost (Consul 1924) Theodore M. Fisher (Vice Consul 1924) Harry W. Hargis, Jr. (Vice Consul 1924) Einar T. Anderson (Vice Consul 1924) Augustus Ostertag (Vice Consul 1925) Edward Caffery (Consul 1925-28) William Clarke Uyse (Vice Consul 1926) William B. Murray (Vice Consul 1926-32) Tisdale W. Bibb (Vice Consul 1926) Charles C. Gidney, Jr. (Vice Consul 1926) Henry T. Dwyer (Vice Consul 1926-29) Charles F. Payne (Vice Consul 1926-27) Joseph A. Springer (Vice Consul 1926-29) Raoul F. Washington (Vice Consul 1927-43) John H. Marvin (Vice Consul 1927-43) H. Charles Spruks (Vice Consul 1927) Harold B. Quarton (Consul 1927-33) William Clarke Vyse (Vice Consul 1927-29) John S. Mosher (Vice Consul 1927) Leo J. Keena (Consul General 1927-29) Charles A. Page (Vice Consul 1929) Randolph Harrison, Jr. (Vice Consul 1929) Hernan C. Vogenitz (Vice Consul 1929) Frederick T. F. Dumont (Consul General 1929-32) Cecil B. Lyon (Vice Consul 1931) Reginald S. Kanjian (Vice Consul 1931) Theodore C. Achilles (Vice Consul 1932) Earl T. Crain (Vice Consul 1932) James R. Wilkinson (Consul 1932) Sydney G. Gest (Vice Consul 1932) Leo Toch (Vice Consul 1932) Charles R. Cameron (Consul General 1934-35) Walter N. Walmsley, Jr. (Vice Consul 1934) Walter N. Walmsley, Jr. (Consul 1935-37) Jule L. Goetzman (Vice Consul 1937-39) Philip W. Bonsal (Vice Consul 1938) Coert du Bois (Consul General 1938) Charles R. Burrows (Vice Consul 1939) Niles W. Bond (Vice Consul 1939) Robert H. McBride (Vice Consul 1941) William A. Crawford (Vice Consul 1943) Lawrence S. Armstrong (Consul 1943) Robert P. Joyce (Consul 1943) Kennett F. Potter (Consul 1943) F. Ridgway Lineaweaver (Consul 1943) F. Lester Sutton (Vice Consul 1943) Joseph S. Sparks (Vice Consul 1943) J. Ramon Solana (Vice Consul 1943) Samuel J. Fletcher (Consul 1943) Thomas J. Cole (Vice Consul 1943) William W. Walker (Vice Consul 1943) H. Bartlett Wells (Vice Consul 1943) Stanley G. Slavens (Consul 1943) William E. Yuni (Vice Consul 1943) Garret G. Ackerson, Jr. (Consul 1943) Gerald G. Jones (Vice Consul 1943) Orray Taft, Jr. (Consul 1943-45) George C. Howard (Consul 1943) Hector C. Adams, Jr. (Vice Consul 1944) A. John Cope (Vice Consul 1945) Carlos J. Warner (Consul General 1949) Richard M. Connell (Consul 1949) Daniel V. Anderson (Consul 1949)
Manzanillo: Josiah Raymond (Consul 1844-55) William Foster (Consular Agent 1855-60) Abraham Morrell (Consul 1860-61) Robert Haley (Consul 1861-62) John Hantus (Consul 1862-63) M. R. Ecay (Consular Agent 1863-66) Francis B. Bertot (Consular Agent 1905-16) Arminius T. Haeberle (Consul 1908-10) Raoul A. Bertot (Consular Agent 1924-49)
Matanzas: John Martin Baker (Agent for Commerce and Seamen 1820-21) John W. McFadon (Agent for Commerce and Seamen 1821-23) Craven Thompson Peyton (Agent for Commerce and Seamen 1821-25) Thomas W. Rodney (Consul 1822-25) Francis Adams (Commercial Agent 1823-25) Lewis Shoemaker (Commercial Agent 1825-31) Lewis Shoemaker (Consul 1831-39) Daniel W. Courts (Consul 1839-40) George Strobel (Consul 1841-42) Thomas W. Rodney (Consul 1842-45) Simeon M. Johnson (Consul 1845-49) Thomas W. Rodney (Consul 1849-53) John P. Garesche (Consul 1855-59) A. M. Erhard (Vice Consul 1858) Hugh Martin, Jr. (Consul 1859-61) Lucius H. Chandler (Consul 1861-62) Albert G. Riddle (Consul 1863-64) Henry C. Hall (Consul 1864-73) George W. Roosevelt (Consul 1880-81) Alexander C. Brice (Consul 1894-98) George A. Brinckerhoff (Vice Consul 1897-98) Alfred Heydrich (Consular Agent 1916) Paul L. Clugston (Vice Consul 1919) James V. Whitfield (Consul 1924) Joseph A. Springer (Vice Consul 1924) Augustus Ostertag (Vice Consul 1926) Ernest L. Monroe (Vice Consul 1927) Warren C. Stewart (Vice Consul 1929) Lucien N. Sullivan (Consul 1932) Edward S. Benet (Vice Consul 1943)
Nueva Gerona: Vervie P. Sutherland (Consular Agent 1916) William Bardel (Consul 1919) Charles Forman (Consul 1920-24) George Bentley Tracy (Vice Consul 1924) Sheridan Talbott (Vice Consul 1926) John J. Coyle (Vice Consul 1929) LaRue R. Lutkins (Vice Consul 1943)
Nuevitas: William H. Freeman (Consul 1842-43) Henry Seymour (Consular Agent 1898) John S. Calvert (Consul 1917-19) Irwin D. Arter (Vice Consul 1918-20) George H. Duffee (Consul 1920) Lawrence P. Briggs (Consul 1924-29) Ernest A. Wakefield (Consul 1932) Lester Sockwell (Vice Consul 1932) Gordon L. Burke (Consul 1943)
Sagua la Grande: Walter B. Barker (Commercial Agent 1893-96) Walter B. Barker (Consul 1897-98) John F. Jova (Consular Agent 1916) Eugene E. Jova (Consular Agent 1924-49)
San Juan de los Remedios (Remedios): J. M. Digges (Consular Agent 1874) James H. Springer (Consular Agent 1898)
Santiago de Cuba: Henry Hone (Consul 1835) William N. Adams (Consul 1850-53) Elisha F. Wallace (Consul 1861-69) Pulaski F. Hyatt (Consul 1897-98) John T. Hyatt (Vice & Deputy Consul 1897) Charles S. Fox (Vice Consul 1898) Ross E. Holaday (Consul 1902-15) Henry M. Wolcott (Vice Consul 1906) Harry C. Morgan (Vice Consul 1914) P. Merrill Griffith (Consul 1916-17) Frederick L. Herron (Vice Consul 1916) Harold D. Clum (Consul 1918-23) John L. Griffith (Vice Consul 1919) Harry W. Story (Vice Consul 1924-49) Francis R. Stewart (Consul 1924-26) Ernest L. Monroe (Vice Consul 1924) William E. Copley (Vice Consul 1926) Edward I. Nathan (Consul 1929) Edwin Schoenrich (Consul 1932) Bernard Gotlieb (Consul 1943)
Trinidad: Daniel Quayle (Consular Agent 1897) Carlos Yznaga (Consular Agent 1898)

U.S. Politicians who were born in Cuba

No city given: Francis B. Bertot 1849 Rafael Madrigal c.1858 Federico Lample 1875 James P. Devereux 1903 Eduardo Aguirre, Jr. 1946
Bayamo: Eladio Armesto Garcia 1936
Bejucal: Albio Sires 1951
Camagüey: Francisco A. Balmaseda 1935
Havana (La Habana): John H. Sununu 1939 Danny J. Boggs 1944 Annie Betancourt 1947 Carlos L. Valdés 1951 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen 1952 Luis Rojas 1953 Lincoln Diaz-Balart 1954 Alberto Gutman 1959
Matanzas: Gustavo Barreiro 1959
Sagua la Grande: Mel Martinez 1946

U.S. Politicians who lived in Cuba

Caibarien: P. B. Anderson

U.S. Politicians who died in Cuba

No city given: Israel Pickens 1827 Joseph Marion Hernandez 1857
Havana (La Habana): William Shaler 1833 Jeremy Robinson 1834 John Edwards Leonard 1878 Harrison Eugene Havens 1916 J. Butler Wright 1939
Matanzas: Lewis Shoemaker 1839

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of U.S. Politicians in Cuba

Havana Necropolis Cristobal Colon
La Habana Colon Cemetery
Matanzas San Carlos Cemetery

Necropolis Cristobal Colon
Havana, Cuba

Politicians buried here:

Frank Steinhart (1864-1938) — Born in 1864. U.S. Consul General in Havana, 1906. Died in 1938. Entombed at Necropolis Cristobal Colon.

Colon Cemetery
La Habana, Cuba

Politicians buried here:

Harrison Eugene Havens (1837-1916) — of Missouri. Born in Franklin County, Ohio, December 15, 1837. Republican. U.S. Representative from Missouri, 1871-75 (4th District 1871-73, 6th District 1873-75). Died in Havana (La Habana), Cuba, August 16, 1916. Interment at Colon Cemetery.
- See also: congressional biography.

San Carlos Cemetery
Matanzas, Cuba

Politicians buried here:

Joseph Marion Hernandez (1793-1857) — of Florida. Born in St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Fla., August 4, 1793. Delegate to U.S. Congress from Florida Territory, 1822-23; member of Florida territorial House of Representatives. Died in Cuba, June 8, 1857. Entombed at San Carlos Cemetery.
- See also: congressional biography.

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