Anselmo Alliegro y Milá (March 16, 1899 – November 22, 1961) was a Cuban politician who served as

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. He was president of the Senate in the Congress of Cuba from 28 January 1955 to 1 January 1959, and served as Prime Minister of Cuba in 1944. He was also Mayor of the town of Baracoa, Representative in the Cuban Congress of 1925, 1940, 1945; Minister of Commerce 1942, Minister of Education, and Minister of Housing. On January 1, 1959, a military junta offered him the interim presidency of Cuba to replace

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, who resigned and emigrated that day, but he did not accept it and emigrated with his family to

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three months later, where they lived for two months and moved to

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. Alliegro was the son of an

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, Miguel Alliegro Esculpino and a Spaniard, Donatila Milá. He was married to Ana Durán with whom he had one child, Anselmo Leon Alliegro Jr. He also had a daughter, Rosa Maria "Polita" Alliegro y Sanchez, from his previous marriage to Rosa M. Sanchez and a step-son, Alfredo G. Duran, a product of his wife Anita Duran's first marriage.

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