Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista

Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista (née Godínez Gómez; December 2, 1904^[1][2] – June 19, 1993) was the First Lady of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 as the first wife of Cuban then-president (later dictator) Fulgencio Batista.

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Godínez, the second or maternal family name is Gómez, and, for married women, the optional marital name is de Batista.

Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista
Godínez in 1939
First Lady of Cuba
In office 10 October 1940 – 10 October 1944
Preceded by	Leonor Montes de Bru
Succeeded by	Paulina Alsina Fernández
Personal details
Born	Elisa Godínez Gómez (1904-12-02)2 December 1904 Vereda Nueva, La Habana Province, Cuba
Died	19 June 1993(1993-06-19) (aged 88) Miami, Florida, United States
Spouse(s)	Fulgencio Batista ​ ​ (m. 1926; div. 1945)​ Máximo Rodríguez ​ ​ (died 1962)​
Children	3

Biography

Godínez was born in a small farmhouse in the village of Vereda Nueva in Havana Province, as one of nine children born to Salustiano Godínez y Córdoba and Concepción Gómez y Acosta.^[1]

Godínez, who shared his humble origins, married Fulgencio Batista in 1926.^[2][3][4] They had a son, Fulgencio Rubén, and two daughters, Mirta^[5] and Elisa Aleida.^[4] They divorced in 1945.^[2][4][3]

Godínez married her second husband, Máximo Rodríguez, a former member of the Cuban Congress, and they immigrated to the United States in 1959, settling in Miami, Florida.^[2][3] Rodríguez died in 1962, and Godínez resided in Miami until her death there on June 19, 1993,^[3][4] at age 88.^[2]

One of her grandsons (the son of Elisa Aleida Batista) is Raoul G. Cantero III, a Justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 2002 to 2008.