Prominent statesman George S. Boutwell served as president from the League's inception in 1898 until his death in 1905.

However, there are some problems with Bacardi's account, as the Spanish-American war was fought in 1898, Cuba's liberation was in 1898, and the Rough Riders left Cuba in September 1898, but Coca-Cola was not available in Cuba until 1900.

Ex-Legionnaire Ferreira, along with the cívico ( civic ) wing of the Liberals, joined the government of Egusquiza, who left office in 1898, to allow a civilian, Emilio Aceval, to become president.

Pressure in Capitol builds for war in 1898 ; Reed ( upper left ) is unable to contain it, as McKinley watches

Shafter personally left Cuba in September 1898 and arrived at the quarantine Camp Wikoff.

Hitler spent most of his youth in the Linz area, from 1898 until 1907, when he left for Vienna.

It was purchased in 1898 by the wealthy banker James T. Woodward who, on his passing in 1910, left it to his nephew, William Woodward, Sr., who became a famous horseman.

At 1: 35 p. m. on Saturday, 10 September 1898, Elisabeth and Countess Irma Sztáray de Sztára et Nagymihály, her lady in waiting, left the hotel on the shore of Lake Geneva on foot to catch the steamship Genève for Montreux.

Archer left in 1898 and was replaced by Victor Herbert, who took the orchestra on several tours and greatly increased the orchestra's presence.

Rheumatic fever forced him to abandon his studies in 1898 and it left him partially incapacitated for a time.

The oldest city in all of the U. S. territory, as of 1898, is San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico, where Juan Ponce De León was its first governor and from where he left towards Florida seeking the fountain of youth, gold and slaves.

In 1898, Stresemann left the University of Berlin, transferring to the University of Leipzig so that he could pursue a doctorate.

In 1898, Ernest Temple Hargrove, who had initially supported Tingley, left with other members to form the Theosophical Society in America ( Hargrove ) Branch.

By 1898, when both the town and the university were renamed Yuryev, virtually all distinguished scholars from Germany had left.

On his death, he left an autobiography in manuscript, which was edited ( 1898 ) by Miss M. Betham-Edwards, and is the main authority for his life.

The Spanish fleet, consisting of the Spanish battleship Pelayo, the armoured cruiser Carlos V and four other warships, left Spain in June 1898.

" Some townspeople were upset that Amory Maynard had not left the town a gift before he died in 1890, and more were upset that Lorenzo Maynard, Amory's son, had withdrawn his own money from the Mill before it went bankrupt in 1898.

In 1898 she left little Mikhail with her parents to study economics in Zürich, Switzerland, with Prof. Heinrich Herkner.

He formally left the École Normale, without graduating, in 1897, even though he continued attending some lectures in 1898.

As an MP Kuyper kept his job as journalist, and he even became chair of the Dutch Circle of Journalists in 1898 ; when he left in 1901 he was made honorary president.

Hackenschmidt left Tallinn in 1898 for the St. Petersburg Athletic and Cycling Club under the training of Dr. Vladislav von Krajewski, who convinced young Hackenschmidt that he had the potential to become the strongest man in the world.

On October 18, 1898 the last Spanish unit left the island and the Department of Porto Rico was established.

Swedish American farmer Olof Ohman ( he appears to have dropped the Swedish spelling Öhman when moving to the US ) asserted that he found the stone late in 1898 while clearing his land of trees and stumps before plowing, having recently taken over an parcel of public domain that had for years been left unallocated as " Internal Improvement Land ".

After Spanish troops left the island in December 1898, the United States occupied Cuba until 1902, and as promised in the Teller Amendment did not attempt to annex the island.

On leaving the Army, Roosevelt was elected governor of New York in 1898 as a Republican.

* Frank Aiken ( 1898 – 1983 ), born in County Armagh, Irish Republican, Irish Minister for External Affairs, Tánaiste

* Phillips Lee Goldsborough ( August 6, 1865 – October 22, 1946 ), a member of the United States Republican Party, was a United States Senator representing State of Maryland from 1929 to 1935, 47th Governor of Maryland from 1912 to 1916 and Comptroller of the Maryland Treasury from 1898 to 1900

When Philippine independence was declared on June 12, 1898, the Philippine Revolutionary Army was renamed the Philippine Republican Army.

Frank Aiken ( 13 February 1898 – 18 May 1983 ) was a commander of the Irish Republican Army and later an Irish politician.

On the other side is the situation was in 1900, after four years of McKinley's leadership: " Gone Republican: a run to the bank, American rule in Cuba " ( the Spanish – American War took place in 1898 ).

He failed in early campaigns for state office from his heavily Republican home county but finally was elected to the state senate in 1898, indicating his growing bipartisan appeal.

President William McKinley, a Republican, secured a Congressional resolution in 1898, and the small republic joined the U. S. All its citizens became full U. S. citizens.

Eisner was always an open Republican as well as a Social-Democrat, joining the SPD in 1898, whereas for tactical reasons German Social-Democracy, particularly in its later stages, rather cold-shouldered anything in the shape of Republican propaganda as being unnecessary and included in general Social-Democratic aims.

Blanche Kelso Bruce ( March 1, 1841March 17, 1898 ) was a U. S. politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the U. S. Senate from 1875 to 1881 and was the first elected non-white senator to serve a full term.

Standing as a Republican candidate in the elections of 1898 for the department of the Sarthe, in opposition to the Duc de la Rochefoucault-Bisaccia, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies by 12, 929 votes to 11, 737.

In 1898 and 1900, Aycock was prominent in the Democratic Party's " white supremacy " campaigns and was elected Governor over Republican Spencer Adams .< ref >

A young disciple and associate of the Generation of 1898, Hernández, like Lorca, became a martyr to the Republican cause but this time as a post-war prisoner, fighting and writing as a soldier poet throughout the war and then languishing and dying in one of Franco's prisons in 1942.

In 1898, after the Spanish-American War when Puerto Rico became a territory of the United States, Quiñones joined the Puerto Rican Republican Party founded by Jose Celso Barbosa and which championed the idea of converting Puerto Rico into a state of the U. S .. Quiñones was elected and served as a representative in Puerto Rico's House of Representatives in 1900 and 1902.

John William Griggs ( July 10, 1849November 28, 1927 ) was an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 29th Governor of New Jersey, from 1896 to 1898, stepping down to assume the position as the United States Attorney General from 1898 to 1901.

In 1898, he fought for re-nomination at the Republican state convention, but was defeated by the Party machine leaders who had Theodore Roosevelt nominated.

Tracy was the Republican candidate to be the first Mayor of Greater New York City when the five boroughs consolidated in 1898.

* Liam Deasy, Irish Republican Army officer in the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War ( born 1898 ).

He was a delegate to the 1896 Republican National Convention and was appointed a member of the United States Civil Service Commission by President William McKinley January 18, 1898, and served until his death in Washington, D. C.

* Walter Judd ( 1898 – 1994 ), former Republican U. S. Representative for Minnesota

In 1898, he helped engineer the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 and was " elected " mayor of Wilmington by the new city council after the coup d ' état forced the resignation of Republican Mayor Silas P. Wright and other members of the city government.