Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista
Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista (December 2, 1904 – June 19, 1993) was the First Lady of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 as the wife of President Fulgencio Batista. She was born in a small farmhouse in Vereda Nueva, Havana Province, one of nine children. She married Batista in 1926, and they had three children: Fulgencio Rubén, Mirta, and Elisa Aleida. The couple divorced in 1945. She later married Máximo Rodríguez, a former Cuban congressman. They moved to the United States and settled in Miami in 1959. Rodríguez died in 1962, and Elisa lived in Miami until her death in 1993 at age 88. Her grandson Raoul G. Cantero III served on the Florida Supreme Court from 2002 to 2008.
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