{{Short description|Legislature of Cuba from 1902 to 1959}} {{Infobox legislature | name = Congress of the Republic of Cuba | native_name = Congreso de la República de Cuba | coa_pic = Coat of arms of Cuba.svg | coa_res = 150px | coa_caption = Coat of arms of Cuba | house_type = Bicameral | houses = * Senate * Chamber of Representatives | foundation = {{Start date|1902|5|20}} | disbanded = {{End date|1959}} | preceded_by = U.S. Military Government of Cuba | succeeded_by = National Assembly of People's Power (later, 1976) | house1 = Senate | house2 = Chamber of Representatives | voting_system1 = | voting_system2 = | last_election1 = 1958 Cuban general election | last_election2 = 1958 Cuban general election | session_room = File:Habana - Capitolio Nacional.jpg | session_res = 240px | meeting_place = El Capitolio, Havana | constitution = 1901 Constitution<br>1940 Constitution | logo_pic = }} {{Politics of Cuba}}
The '''Congress of Cuba''' ({{langx|es|Congreso de Cuba}}) was the legislature of Cuba from 20 May 1902 until the Cuban Revolution of 1959.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NPVW_aGpki0C|title=Constitución cubana de 1940|first=Autores|last=varios|date=1 January 2014|publisher=Linkgua digital|via=Google Books|isbn=9788498971545}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
The Congress consisted of the 130-member Chamber of Representatives (''Cámara de Representantes'') and the 54-member Senate (''Senado'') in December 1958.
The first Cuban Congress met for the first time on May 5, 1902.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History Of Cuba |url=https://www.keyshistory.org/cuba.html#:~:text=The%20first%20Cuban%20Congress%20met,setting%20up%20a%20provisional%20government. |access-date=2026-05-24 |website=www.keyshistory.org}}</ref> Generally, Congress held at least two sessions during a given year. Meetings were interrupted by the Second Occupation of Cuba after the session of September 28, 1906. Following the re-establishment of Cuban-based government in 1909 it met without interruption from January 13, 1909, until April 1933, a few months before President Gerardo Machado was overthrown. During the presidency of Ramon Grau the country's legislative apparatus was largely undertaken by Grau's administration under the auspices of the student revolutionary junta. Commencing with the provisional presidency of Carlos Mendieta a ''Consejo de Estado'' (Council of State) undertook advisory legislative functions. The Council of State was abolished in April, 1936 when the Cuban Congress finally resumed its session after three years of inactivity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.159198/page/n11/mode/2up|title = Cuba Vii|year = 1939}}</ref>
== Presidents of the Senate 1902–1958 == {| class="wikitable" ! Name ! Took office ! Left office ! Notes |- |Domingo Méndez Capote |8 May 1902 |5 April 1905 |<ref name="handbook">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2AYAAAAYAAJ|title=Cuba: A Handbook of Historical Statistics|first=Susan|last=Schroeder|date=15 April 1982|publisher=G.K. Hall|via=Google Books|isbn=9780816182138}}</ref> |- |Manuel Sanguily Garritte |5 April 1905 |11 April 1906 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Ricardo Dolz Arango |11 April 1906 |28 September 1906 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Martín Morúa Delgado|Martín Morúa Delgado |18 January 1909 |4 April 1910 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Antonio Gonzalo Pérez |4 April 1910 |16 April 1913 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Eugenio Sánchez Agramonte |16 April 1913 |10 April 1917 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Ricardo Dolz Arango |10 April 1917 |20 April 1921 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Aurelio Álvarez de la Vega |20 April 1921 |7 April 1925 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Clemente Vázquez Bello |7 April 1925 |28 September 1932 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Alberto Barrera Fernández |30 September 1932 |12 August 1933 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Justo Luis Pozo del Puerto |13 April 1936 |1 September 1936 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Arturo Illas Horroutinier |1 September 1936 |1 June 1937 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Lucilo de la Peña Cruz |1 June 1937 |15 November 1937 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Guillermo Alonso Pujol |15 November 1937 |7 September 1938 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Santiago Verdeja Neyra |7 September 1938 |21 November 1940 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Antonio Beruff Mendieta |21 November 1940 |17 February 1942 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Guillermo Alonso Pujol |17 February 1942 |30 August 1943 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |José E. Bringuier Laredo |30 August 1943 |26 September 1944 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Eduardo Suárez Rivas |26 September 1944 |12 December 1945 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Miguel A. Suárez Fernández |12 December 1945 |6 October 1950 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Manuel A. Varona Loredo |6 October 1950 |10 March 1952 |<ref name="handbook" /> |- |Anselmo Alliegro Milá |28 January 1955 |5 January 1959 |<ref name="handbook" /><ref name="fidelcastro.cu">{{cite web|url=http://www.fidelcastro.cu/en/node/67935|title=Primero de enero de 1959: Esta vez sí que es una Revolución - FIDEL Soldier of Ideas|website=www.fidelcastro.cu}}</ref> |}
== Presidents of the Chamber of Representatives 1902–1958 == {| class="wikitable" ! Name ! Took office ! Left office ! Notes |- |Pelayo García Santiago |14 May 1902 |3 November 1902 |<ref name="ufl.edu">{{cite web|url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00072608/00001/25|title=Diario de sesiones del Congreso de la Républica de Cuba|website=ufdc.ufl.edu}}</ref><ref name="compendiolegislativo">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v3dKAQAAIAAJ|title=Compendio legislativo, 1902 a 1950|first=Cuba Congreso Cámara de|last=Representantes|date=5 May 2019|via=Google Books}}</ref> |- |Rafael Portuondo y Tamayo |18 November 1902 |7 November 1903 |<ref name="ufl.edu"/><ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |Carlos de la Torre Huerta |7 November 1903 |4 April 1904 | <ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |José A. Malberty |8 July 1904 |7 November 1904 | <ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |Santiago García Cañizares |9 November 1904 |23 April 1906 |<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LgEeAAAAMAAJ|title=Ejército Libertador de Cuba, 1895-1898: antecedentes históricos, fotos y biografías de mayores generales y generales de división y brigadas, anexos informativos|first=Mario Riera|last=Hernández|date=5 May 1985|publisher=EE.UU.|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |Fernando Freyre de Andrade |24 April 1906 |12 October 1906 |<ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |Orestes Ferrara Marino |18 April 1909 |1914 |<ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |José Antonio González Lanuza |1914 |1914 | |- |Ibrahim Urquiaga Arrastía |30 August 1914 |1915 |<ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |Orestes Ferrara y Marino |19 April 1915 |1917 |<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/LeonPrimellesCronicaCubana191518T1|title=Crónica cubana 1915-1918|first=León|last=Primelles|date=15 April 2019|publisher=Talleres Tipográficos de Editorial Lex|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> |- |Miguel Coyula Llaguno |7 April 1917 |1919 |<ref name="auto"/><ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |Santiago Verdeja Neyra |1919 |1923 | |- |Clemente Vázquez Bello |1923 |1925 |<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QuFFAQAAIAAJ |title = El libro amarillo de los Estados Unidos de Venezuela: Presentado al Congreso Nacional en sus sesiones de ... Por el Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores|year = 1924}}</ref> |- |Ramón Zaydín |11 April 1925 |4 April 1927 |<ref name="auto"/><ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |Rafael Guas Inclán |11 April 1927 |24 August 1933 |<ref name="auto"/><ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |Carlos Márquez Sterling |27 April 1936 |3 February 1937 |<ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |Antonio Martínez Fraga |4 February 1937 |18 April 1938 |<ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |Antonio Bravo Acosta |1937 |? | |- |Marcelino Garriga Garay |2 September 1938 |1 April 1940 | <ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |José A. Cardet Góngora |24 June 1940 |16 September 1940 | <ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |Gustavo Gutiérrez Sánchez |21 November 1940 |27 October 1941 | <ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |Carlos Márquez Sterling |29 October 1941 |19 October 1942 |<ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |Néstor Carbonell Andricaín |19 October 1942 |27 September 1944 |<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fuq7AAAAIAAJ|title=Los propietarios de Cuba 1958|first=Guillermo|last=Jiménez|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Editorial de Ciencias Sociales|via=Google Books|isbn=9789590608308}}</ref><ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |Miguel A. de León Fuentes |27 September 1944 |1 October 1946 | <ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |Rubén de León García |1 October 1946 |19 September 1948 | <ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |Lincoln Rodón Alvarez |4 October 1948 |10 March 1952 | <ref name="compendiolegislativo" /> |- |Gastón Godoy y Loret de Mola |28 January 1955 |5 January 1959 |<ref name="fidelcastro.cu"/> |- |}
==See also== *National Assembly of People's Power – Unicameral legislature since 1976 *History of Cuba
==References== {{reflist}}
Category:Defunct bicameral legislatures Category:1902 establishments in Cuba Category:1959 disestablishments in Cuba Category:Republic of Cuba (1902–1959)