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I was born in New York, and my father was Cuban. I emigrated to my mother's native country at the age of two. I was active in restoring the culture and later the independence of my new country. After my involvement in the revolution, I was elected to political office, and spent my life in government, eventually becoming head of state before I was 40. When I finally retired, I was the oldest head of state in the world, and one of three at the time who were born in the USA.
I am best known as a soldier for a nation to which I was not born. In fact, I fought for the nation that defeated my native land. I was inspired to be a soldier when I saw one of my adoptive nation's warriors for a brief moment and was so struck by what I saw that I set my sights on doing the same thing.
My capture in combat set the stage for my greatest achievement. Survival. I escaped from a nation in which my adoptive country wasn't even publicly fighting becoming the only soldier to accomplish that feat during the course of the war.
I was the first head of state of a newly formed nation. My father was illiterate, and my mother could not speak the language of the nation I would lead for 17 years. As a youth, I worked as a blacksmith, but by the age of 32, I became a professor of philosophy. In the 1990s, a picture of my funeral appeared on the cover of a rock album that sold over a million copies. A town in Florida is named after me. The United States issued a postage stamp in my honor 109 years after my birth.
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