Perfecto Lacoste was the first Mayor of Havana elected under American occupation and later Secretary of Agriculture of Cuba.

[3] Perfecto Lacoste y Grave de Peralta was born in Holguín, Cuba in the early 1860s.

[5] He attended university in the United States, went into business in Cincinnati, and later obtained American citizenship.

[9][10] When the Cuban Secretary of Agriculture Juan Ríus Rivera resigned on May 1, 1900, Lacoste assumed the position.

[11] Lacoste was appointed the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Industry by Military Governor of Cuba Leonard Wood and resigned as Mayor of Havana.