Bartolomé Masó
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Bartolomé Masó on a 1910 Cuban stamp
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Bartolomé de Jesús Masó Márquez December 21, 1830 Yara, Cuba |
| Died | June 14, 1907 (aged 76) Manzanillo, Cuba |
| Occupation | Politician and military |
Bartolomé de Jesús Masó Márquez (Yara, 21 December 1830 - Manzanillo, 14 June 1907) was a Cuban politician and military, patriot for Cuban independence from the colonial power of Spain; and later President of the República en Armas ("Republic in Arms").
Masó, son of a Catalan father and a Cuban mother from Bayamo, was born in Yara on a farm named "Cerca Pie"; later he moved with his parents to the coastal city of Manzanillo. He was educated at the Convent of Santo Domingo. As a young man put his activities in the service of commerce, and cultivated his interest in literature, also composing verses.
In 1851 he protested in a speech against the execution of Narciso López on the garrote. Since this event he was under surveillance of the colonial authorities.
When in 1867 Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Francisco Vicente Aguilera and other began to conspire ways to look at the independence of Cuba, Masó was one of the first who joined the cause. On 10 October 1868, when he thought the moment had come and took off with his two brothers, he met Céspedes in La Demajagua and took part in the unsuccessful uprising of Yara. He was involved in the attack and capture of Bayamo and to the liberation struggles in Jiguaní, Báguano, Rejondón, Bermeja and other places.
Shortly after the death of Céspedes, Masó was elected as representative of the department of Oriente; and when Tomás Estrada Palma was elected delegate of the Cuban Revolutionary Party (PRC), named him Secretary of War after the death of José Martí. When Estrada Palma was imprisoned he returned into the armed forces, as brigadier general.
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