About José Gómez-Mena
Lived 1882 – 1980 (aged 97–98). José Gómez-Mena was a Spanish and Cuban businessperson.
José "Pepe" Genaro Ramon Gómez-Mena Vila (1883 – 1960) was a Cuban sugar baron, and Minister of Agriculture during the Miguel Mariano Gomez government (May 20, 1936 – December 24, 1936).
Early life He was born in 1883, the son of Andrés Gómez-Mena, who came to Cuba from Spain, and Eugenia Carlota Tomasa Vila-Perez.
Career 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. A pre-nuptial agreement was signed in December 1937.
He died in 1960, and is buried in Hillcrest Memorial Park, West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Spanish businessperson
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José Gómez-Mena was born in 1882 in Spain.
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José Gómez-Mena died in 1980.
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José Gómez-Mena was Spanish and Cuban.
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