| Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista | |
| Office: | First Lady of Cuba |
| Term Start: | 10 October 1940 |
| Term End: | 10 October 1944 |
| Predecessor: | Leonor Montes de Bru |
| Successor: | Polita Grau |
| Birth Name: | Elisa Godínez Gómez |
| Birth Date: | December 2, 1904 |
| Birth Place: | Vereda Nueva, La Habana Province, Cuba |
| Death Place: | Miami, Florida, United States |
| Spouse: | |
| Children: | 3 |
Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista (; December 2, 1904[1] - June 19, 1993) was the First Lady of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 as the first wife of Cuban then-president (later dictator) Fulgencio Batista.
Godínez was born in a small farmhouse in the village of Vereda Nueva in Havana Province, as one of nine children born to Salustiano Godínez y Córdoba and Concepción Gómez y Acosta.[2]
Godínez, who shared his humble origins, married Fulgencio Batista in 1933.[1] [3] [4] They had a son, Rubén, and two daughters, Mirta[5] and Elisa Aleida.[4] They divorced in 1945.[1] [4] [3]
Godínez married her second husband, Máximo Rodríguez, a former member of the Cuban Congress, and they immigrated to the United States in 1959, settling in Miami, Florida.[1] [3] Rodríguez died in 1962, and Godínez resided in Miami until her death there on June 19, 1993,[3] [4] at age 88.[1]
One of her grandsons (the son of Elisa Aleida Batista) is Raoul G. Cantero III, a Justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 2002 to 2008.