Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista

Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista (c. 1905 June 19, 1993) was the First Lady of Cuba from 1940 to 1944. She was the first wife of Cuban President, Dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Elisa Godínez y Gómez de Batista
First Lady of Cuba
In office
10 October 1940  10 October 1944
Preceded byLeonor Montes de Bru
Succeeded byPolita Grau
Personal details
Bornc. 1905
Vereda Nueva, La Habana Province, Cuba
DiedJune 19, 1993
Miami, Florida, USA
Spouse(s)
(m. 1933; div. 1945)

Máximo Rodríguez
(m. 19??; d. 1962)
Children3

Biography

Godínez was born on December 2, 1904[1][2] in the village of Vereda Nueva in the Havana province (Ciudad de La Habana Province).[1] Like Batista, she was of humble origin and was born in a small farmhouse, as one of nine children born to Salustiano Godínez y Córdoba and Concepción Gómez y Acosta.[1]

Godinez married Batista in 1933.[2][3][4] They had a son, Rubén, and two daughters, Mirta[5] and Elisa Aleida.[4] They divorced in 1945.[2][4][3]

Godínez married her second husband, Máximo Rodríguez, a former member of the Cuban Congress, and they immigrated to the United States in 1959, settling in Miami, Florida.[2][3] Rodríguez died in 1962, and Godínez resided in Miami until her death there on June 19, 1993,[3][4] at age 88.[2]

One of her grandsons (the son of Elisa Batista) is Raoul G. Cantero III, a Justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 2002 to 2008.

References

  1. Argote-Freyre, Frank (21 April 2006). Fulgencio Batista The Making of a Dictator. Rutgers University Press. p. 29. ISBN 9780813541006. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
  2. "Elisa Godinez Rodriguez". Asbury Park Press. Asbury Park, New Jersey. June 22, 1993. p. 28. Retrieved February 18, 2019 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Elisa Rodriguez, Batista's wife, dies". The Central New Jersey Home News. New Brunswick, New Jersey. June 22, 1993. p. 2. Retrieved February 18, 2019 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Cuba's former first lady dies". The Californian. Salinas, California. June 22, 1993. p. 16. Retrieved February 18, 2019 via Newspapers.com.
  5. Wysocki, Ronald A. (August 23, 1959). "Batista's Daughter in Hub Thinks Dictator Betrayed. Cuba's Ex-Strongman Good to Own Family". The Boston Globe. p. 55. Retrieved February 18, 2019 via Newspapers.com.

Further reading

  • Fulgencio Batista: From Revolutionary to Strongman by Frank Argote-Freyre; Rutgers University Press (2006); ISBN 978-0-8135-3702-3
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