Domingo Mendez Capote (12 December 1863-16 June 1934) was Vice President of Cuba from 1905 to 1906, succeeding Luis Estevez Romero and preceding Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso. He was the founder of the Republican Party of Havana.
Biography[]
Domingo Mendez Capote was born in Cardenas, Cuba in 1863, and he worked as a lawyer and as a law professor at the University of Havana before joining José Martí's Cuban Revolutionary Party in 1894. During the Cuban War of Independence, he became a nationalist leader, and he became a Senator from the Province of Matanzas in 1902. Mendez went on to serve as Vice President from 1905 to 1906, and he left office when President Tomas Estrada Palma was forced to resign after being fraudulently re-elected.