José María Cabral y Báez

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Cabral and the second or maternal family name is Báez.

José María Cabral y Báez (1864–1937) was a lawyer, businessman, and politician from the Dominican Republic.

Early life and family

Cabral y Báez was born to President Marcos Antonio Cabral and Altagracia Amelia Báez (daughter of President Buenaventura Báez); he had 7 siblings, among them, Mario Fermín Cabral y Báez. On 17 November 1897, he married María Petronila Bermúdez y Rochet, daughter of Erasmo Bermúdez Jiménez, the founder of Bermúdez rum company; they had 6 children: Amelia María (1899–1996), Auristela (1901–1988), José María (1902–1984), Marco Antonio (1906–1973), Josefina Eugenia (1910–1994), and Pedro Pablo Cabral Bermúdez (1916–1988). He also begat 3 children with Estela Navarro: Mairení, José and Raúl Cabral Navarro; with Rafaela Meyreles he sired 2 children: Rafael and Enrique Meyreles.[1]

Career

In 1886, he founded in Santiago the law firm J. M. Cabral y Báez. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 1908 to November 1911, during the last half of Ramón Cáceres’s presidential term, and minister during the short presidency of Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal in 1916, before the American occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–24).[2]

References

  1. ↑ Rosario, Esteban (1997). La oligarquía de Santiago (in Spanish). Editora Central.
  2. ↑ Salmador, Víctor. José Francisco Peña Gómez: sus orígens, su biografía, su personalidad, su pensamiento (in Spanish). Gráficas.
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