Manuel Márquez Sterling

Manuel Márquez Sterling (born Carlos Manuel Agustin Márquez Sterling y Loret de Mola on August 28, 1872 in Lima, Peru – December 9, 1934, Washington, DC, United States) was a Cuban diplomat and interim President of Cuba for a few hours on January 18, 1934.

He was an attorney, was Ambassador of Cuba to Mexico and later to the United States.  He was married to his cousin, Mercedes Márquez Sterling y Ziburo. He was the uncle of Carlos Márquez Sterling, a figure in Cuban politics.

He tied for 16-17th in the Paris 1900 chess tournament (Emanuel Lasker won) played during the world exhibition.

References

 Fulgencio Batista: Volume 1, From Revolutionary to Strongman, Argote-Freyre, Frank (Rutgers, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2006)   
 https://web.archive.org/web/20080123115616/http://www.vitral.org/vitral/vitral51/cent.htm
 https://web.archive.org/web/20080619170844/http://www.endgame.nl/wfairs.htm
  (Spanish)

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