Carlos Saladrigas Zayas
{{Short description|Cuban politician and diplomat}}
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{{Infobox Prime Minister
|name = Carlos Saladrigas Zayas
|image = Carlos saladrigas.jpg
|imagesize =
|order1 = 1st
|office1 = Prime Minister of Cuba
|term_start1 = 10 October 1940
|term_end1 = 16 August 1942
|president1 = Fulgencio Batista
|predecessor1 = Position Established
|successor1 = Ramón Zaydín
|birth_date = 13 October 1900
|birth_place = Havana, Cuba
|death_date = 15 April 1956 (aged 55)
|death_place = Havana, Cuba
|party = Popular Socialist Party
|religion =
|spouse = María González-Llorente
Esperanza Plasencia
Cusa Carrillo
|children = 2
|alma_mater =
|profession = Lawyer
}}
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas (Carlos Eduardo Ramón{{Citation needed|date=January 2012}} Saladrigas y Zayas; October 13, 1900 – 15 April 1956) was a Cuban politician and diplomat.
Career
He was an abogado-notario who served as Senator (1936-1940), Minister of Justice (1934), Foreign Minister (1933) and (1955-1956), Prime Minister of Cuba (1940-1942), Ambassador to Great Britain, and presidential candidate in the elections of 1944.
Personal life
He was the son of Enrique Saladrigas Lunar and María Luisa Zayas y Diago. He married his wife, María de las Mercedes González-Llorente y Martínez in 1923 and they had two children, Gloria and Carlos Saladrigas y González-Llorente. He later married Esperanza Plasencia y del Peso and lastly Cusa Carrillo.
References
- Fulgencio Batista: Volume 1, From Revolutionary to Strongman, Argote-Freyre, Frank (Rutgers, New Jersey:Rutgers University Press, 2006){{ISBN|0-8135-3701-0}}
- Los Propietarios de Cuba 1958, Guillermo Jimenez Soler (Havana, Cuba: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2007){{in lang|es}}
- Anuario Social de La Habana 1939, (Luz-Hilo, S.A.) {{in lang|es}}
- Directorio Social de La Habana 1948, (P. Fernandez y Cia, S. en C.) {{in lang|es}}
- Libro de Oro de la Sociedad Habanera 1949, (Editorial Lex) {{in lang|es}}
- Libro de Oro de la Sociedad Habanera 1950, (Editorial Lex) {{in lang|es}}
- Registro Social de La Habana 1958, (Molina y Cia, S.A.) {{in lang|es}}
- {{cite book
| last = Otero
| first = Juan Joaquin
| title = Libro De Cuba, Una Enciclopedia Ilustrada Que Abarca Las Artes, Las Letras, Las Ciencias, La Economia, La Politica, La Historia, La Docencia, Y El Progreso General De La Nacion Cubana - Edicion Conmemorative del Cincuentenario de la Republica de Cuba, 1902-1952
| year = 1954
}} (Spanish)
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{{succession box | before = Office established |title = Prime Minister of Cuba |years=10 October 1940 – 16 August 1942| after = Ramón Zaydín}}
{{succession box | before = ? | title = Foreign Minister of Cuba|years=1933| after = Manuel Márquez Sterling}}
{{succession box | before = Andrés Domingo | title = Foreign Minister of Cuba|years=1955-1956| after = Gonzalo Güell}}
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Category:Ministers of foreign affairs of Cuba
Category:Prime ministers of Cuba
Category:Politicians from Havana
Category:Ambassadors of Cuba to the United Kingdom
Category:20th-century Cuban politicians
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