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Pedro Santana y Familias, 1st Marquess of Las Carreras (29 June 1801 – 14 June 1864) was a military commander and royalist politician who served as the president of the junta that had established the First Dominican Republic, a precursor to the position of the President of the Dominican Republic, and as the first President of the republic in the modern line of succession.
Pedro Santana is a town in the province of Elías Piña in the Dominican Republic. It is located on the border region with Haiti. The name of the town is in honor of Pedro Santana, the first constitutional president of the country, and general in the Dominican War of Independence.
Pedro Santana (1801–1864) 1853 15 February 1853 26 May 1856 3 years, 101 days Resigned. Manuel de Regla Mota (1795–1864) — 2 January 1855: 5 September 1855: 246 days Vice-president under Pedro Santana. Acting president. — 26 May 1856 8 October 1856 135 days Vice-president under Pedro Santana, assumed the presidency after his resignation ...
Within the 17 years of the First Republic, the influence of liberal that led to the establishment of the Dominican Republic would lose prominence, and conservative politics took the reins of the government. The two most prolific politicians to emerge from this period was Pedro Santana (left) and Buenaventura Báez (right).
The Reintegration of Santo Domingo (Spanish: Reintegración de Santo Domingo) was a brief period of Spanish reintegration of the Dominican Republic.In 1861, Dominican general Pedro Santana suggested retaking control of the Dominican Republic to Queen Isabella II of Spain, after a period of 17 years of Dominican sovereignty.
Colour portrait of Pedro Santana. Marquess of Las Carreras was a hereditary marquisal title in the Spanish nobility.It was created in 1862 by Queen Isabella II to Lt. General Pedro Santana, landholder and the 1st President of the Dominican Republic, following his retirement as Governor-General of Santo Domingo in 1862.
The Battle of Azua (Spanish: Batalla de Azua) was the first major battle of the Dominican War of Independence and was fought on the 19 March 1844, at Azua de Compostela, Azua Province. A force of some 2,200 Dominican troops, a portion of the Army of the South, led by General Pedro Santana and General Antonio Duvergé defeated an outnumbering ...
The first president was Pedro Santana, who was invested on 14 November 1844 by decision of the Central Government Junta. The current president of the Dominican Republic is Luis Abinader of the Modern Revolutionary Party, who won the 2020 Dominican Republic general election and took office on 16 August 2020 from Danilo Medina.