Armando Carnot Veulens

He was born in the city of Matanzas. His parents were: Doctor Alfredo Carnot de Lisle —senator and first mayor of Matanzas upon the conclusion of the war of independence— and the distinguished lady Josefina Veulens y Meissimelly.

He served as an intern student and dentist at hospital number one in Havana. Subsequently he was a physician at the civil hospital of Matanzas and special inspector of sanitation throughout the Cuban republic.

Professor at the Instituto de Segunda Enseñanza, he always remembered with pride his first education received at the school El Siglo.

He married in 1910 the lady Felicia Rodríguez Miranda, a union from which were born four daughters and one son.

In April of 1914 he replaced Doctor Antonio Font Cuesta as titular physician of the association of stevedores of Matanzas. The salary corresponding to this position in those years was about thirty pesos monthly.

He was known as the physician of the poor for his commitment and dedication toward the most disadvantaged sectors of republican society. Elected mayor of Matanzas in nineteen sixteen, he held this position until twenty.

The esteemed Doctor Carnot died at the age of forty-two in the city of Matanzas itself, on a return trip from Havana to Matanzas, after having met with the president of the republic Gerardo Machado, who poisoned him in the presidential palace itself during a lunch, because he wanted to convince him not to aspire to the mayoralty of Matanzas, and instead offered him another position, that of Minister of Public Health, but the doctor did not accept.