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About Severiano de Heredia
Severiano de Heredia was a Cuban-born biracial politician, a freemason, a left-wing republican, naturalized as French in 1870, who was president of the municipal council of Paris from 1 August 1879 to 12 February 1880, making him the only native of the American continent who was appointed on relevant post of the Mayor of Paris and the first mayor of African descent of a Western world capital.
Everything about Severiano de Heredia →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- member of the French National Assembly, minister, member of the French National Assembly
- Citizenship
- France, Cuba
- Born
- November 8, 1836
- Died
- February 9, 1901