for The Organization of American States (OAS). His childhood sweetheart was Leocadia de la Concepción de Verna y Peñes (December 9, 1893 - 1982). Leocadia was nicknamed "Cheche". José and Cheche had two children, a daughter, Judith (1912–2005), and a son Aquiles (1916–1962). Judith de Verna Cortina married Mario Milian and had one daughter, Judith Marty née Milian (founder and principal of Mater Academy Charter School). Aquiles married Daisy Breton and had one child, a daughter, Daisita. Other famous descendants of José Manuel Cortina include Nestor Carbonell, Aileen M. Marty, Elena Marty-Nelson, and Bernie Aquiles Cueto. References (Spanish) Los Propietàrios de Cuba 1958, Guillermo Jimenez Soler (Havana, Cuba: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2007) Cuba The Pursuit of Freedom, Hugh Thomas (London, Great Britain:Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd., 1971) SBN 413-27470-5 Cuban diplomats Foreign ministers of Cuba 1880 births 1970 deaths Cuban senators League of Nations people Permanent Representatives of Cuba to the League of Nations Members of the Cuban House of Representatives Cuban people of Basque descent Cuban emigrants to the United States 1930s in Cuba 20th-century Cuban politicians