José Gómez-Mena
| José Gómez-Mena | |
|---|---|
| Born |
José Genaro Ramon Gómez-Mena Vila 1882 Cuba |
| Died | 1980 |
| Nationality | Cuban |
| Occupation | sugar baron, Minister of Agriculture |
| Children | Lillian Rosa Gomez-Mena |
| Parent(s) | Andrés Gómez-Mena Eugenia Carlota Tomasa Vila-Perez |
| Relatives | Alfonso Fanjul Sr. (son-in-law) |
José "Pepe" Genaro Ramon Gómez-Mena Vila (1882 – 1980) was a Cuban sugar baron, and Minister of Agriculture during the Gerardo Machado dictatorship (1925-33).
He was the son of Andrés Gómez-Mena and Eugenia Carlota Tomasa Vila-Perez.
His family owned the New Gomez-Mena Sugar Company.
In the 1920s, he had built the Gomez-Mena mansion in Havana, which was bequeathed to his widowed sister María Luisa Gómez-Mena Vila, the Condesa de Revilla de Camargo. The Castro regime seized the Gomez-Mena mansion, and leaving its art and furnishings intact (some 33,000 antiques), renamed it the National Museum of Decorative Arts.
He was Minister of Agriculture during the Gerardo Machado dictatorship (1925-33).
In 1936, his daughter, Lillian Rosa Gomez-Mena (1918-1992), married Alfonso Fanjul Sr., which united two of the country's leading sugar fortunes, and created a combined business of ten sugar mills, three distilleries, and Cuban-wide real estate holdings.
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