Miguel Gener
{{Short description|Cuban politician}}
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| birth_date = 1841
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Miguel Gener y Rincón was a Cuban politician, delegate to the Congress of Cuba, Secretary of Justice during the US military occupation of the island, and Mayor of Havana.{{Cite book |last=Department |first=United States War |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4_hIAQAAMAAJ |title=Annual Reports of the War Department |date=1901 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=326 |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=1901-07-02 |title=Havana City Council Inaugurated. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1901/07/02/archives/havana-city-council-inaugurated.html |access-date=2025-03-23 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite journal |last= |first= |date=June 8, 1901 |title=Current Events: Short Gleanings from the Reports of the Happenings of the World |url=https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053937/1901-06-08/ed-1/seq-3/ |journal=The Dalton Argus |page=3}} At the Cuban Constitutional Convention after the end of the Cuban War of Independence, Gener was the first Cuban politician to introduce the concept of Women's suffrage to the island, but his bill was rejected, and women would not earn the right to vote in Cuba for another three decades.{{Citation |last=Barrueta |first=Norma Vasallo |title=AN APPROACH TO CUBAN FEMINIST IDEAS AND OBJECTIVES: ECHOES FROM THE PAST, VOICES FROM THE PRESENT |date=2007-01-01 |work=Feminist Philosophy in Latin America and Spain |pages=21–29 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/9789401204439/B9789401204439-s003.xml |access-date=2025-03-23 |publisher=Brill |language=en |isbn=978-94-012-0443-9}} In 1902, pending an investigation by Emilio Núñez, Gener was removed as mayor of Havana by Leonard Wood, after a vote of twenty-three out of twenty-five members of the City Council requested him to do so.{{Cite web |title=Salt Lake Herald {{!}} 1902-01-09 {{!}} Page 7 {{!}} Mayor of Havana Said to be a Boodler Already |url=https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=10378420 |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=newspapers.lib.utah.edu |language=en}}