Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista
First Lady of Cuba
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Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista (née Godínez Gómez; December 2, 1904[1][2] – June 19, 1993) was the First Lady of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 as the first wife of Cuban then-president (later dictator) Fulgencio Batista.
2 December 1904
Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista | |
|---|---|
 Godínez in 1939 | |
| First Lady of Cuba | |
| In office 10 October 1940 – 10 October 1944 | |
| Preceded by | Leonor Montes de Bru |
| Succeeded by | Paulina Alsina Fernández |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Elisa Godínez Gómez 2 December 1904 Vereda Nueva, La Habana Province, Cuba |
| Died | 19 June 1993 (aged 88) Miami, Florida, United States |
| Spouse(s) |
Máximo Rodríguez
(died 1962) |
| Children | 3 |
Biography
Godínez was born in a small farmhouse in the village of Vereda Nueva in Havana Province, as one of nine children born to Salustiano Godínez y Córdoba and Concepción Gómez y Acosta.[1]
Godínez, who shared his humble origins, married Fulgencio Batista in 1926.[2][3][4] They had a son, Fulgencio 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 Aleida Batista) is Raoul G. Cantero III, a Justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 2002 to 2008.