Leopoldo Cancio

He attended the El Salvador School in Havana founded by Jose de la Luz y Caballero.

During the American intervention (1898–1902), he served in the Treasury department under the governments of John Rutter Brooke and Leonard Wood.

In 1913, when the Conservative Party won the election, he served as the Secretary of Treasury in the government of Mario García Menocal.

[1] He created the Cuban bank system, which became law on October 29, 1914, based on the gold standard.

On November 28, 1879, he married Maria Secondaria del Carmen Sanchez y Toledo and they had six children.