José Braulio Alemán
José Braulio Alemán (26 March 1864 – 15 January 1930, Havana) was a Cuban Brigadier General in the Spanish–American War, promoted to major general after the war. General Alemán was the principal author of the Constitution of Cuba proclaimed at La Yara in 1896. This Constitution was used as template for the 1901 Constitution of the new Republic of Cuba. Biography A lawyer by profession, owner and journalist of two newspapers at Santa Clara, Cuba in the province of Las Villas, he was incarcerated several times for articles written in favor of Cuba's independence. He was a very prominent and key player in the fight against the Spanish and the eventual liberation of Cuba. Joining the fight for liberation from Spain he was soon promoted from colonel to brigader general. It was General Alemán who served as prosecutor in the famous Morote trial for espionage and treason against the burgeoning republic. General Alemán is fondly and respectfully remembered as the principal author of the Cuban Constitution written at a La Yara while still at arms against the Spanish in 1896. At the end of the war during the American occupation he was one of the very few dignitaries who voted