José Tomás Betancourt (1811 – August 12, 1851) was a Cuban revolutionary executed alongside Joaquín de Agüero by the Spanish authorities for his role in the early fight for Cuba's independence.
José Tomás Betancourt y Zayas was born in Puerto Príncipe (now Camagüey), Spanish Cuba around 1811.
[3] Lémery declared on August 11, 1851, that the men convicted of sedition would be executed by firing squad in Arroyo Méndez the next morning, as ordered by the military commission of Puerto Príncipe.
[4] Betancourt, Agüero, Fernando de Zayas, and Miguel Benavides were to be executed, while the others received prison sentences.
[5] José Tomás Betancourt was executed by firing squad near Arroyo Méndez in Camagüey on August 12, 1851.