Charles Edward Magoon
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Charles Edward Magoon was an American lawyer, judge, diplomat, and administrator who is best remembered as a governor of the Panama Canal Zone; he also served as Minister to Panama at the same time. H
Magoon, 1905–1920
Wreckage of the USS Maine
José Miguel Gómez
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José Miguel Gómez y Gómez was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was one of the leaders of the rebel forces in the Cuban War of Independence. He later served as President of Cuba from 1909 to 19
Charles Edward Magoon
…to the country" and returned Cuba to the corrupt practices of colonial times. On January 28, 1909, the sovereign government of Cuba was restored, and José Miguel Gómez became president. No explicit evidence of Magoon's corruption ever surfaced, but his parting gesture of issuing lucrative Cuban contracts to U.S. firms…
Gómez in 1909
Jose Miguel Gomez, c. 1918