Desiderio Alberto Arnaz II
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y Alberni II was a Cuban politician and the father of Desi Arnaz.
He graduated from the Southern College of Pharmacy in 1913 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Desiderio Arnaz II was the youngest mayor of Santiago de Cuba. He was elected to the Cuban House of Representatives in November 1932 for the Oriente Province. When president Gerardo Machado was overthrown in August 1933, Rep. Arnaz was arrested and jailed. Six months later, he was allowed to go into exile.
He was the son of Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y Alberni, a doctor and Rosa Alberni y Portuondo, the great-granddaughter of a mayor of Santiago de Cuba, José Joaquín Portuondo y Rizo, 1st Conde de Santa Inés. He married Dolores "Lolita" de Acha y de Socias in 1916 and had one son, Desi Arnaz. He later had a daughter, Connie Arnaz, with Anne M. Wilson, whom he married in 1941.
Arnaz died in 1973 in Miami and is entombed above President Machado at Caballero Rivero Woodlawn North Park Cemetery and Mausoleum.
