Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal

Francisco Hilario Henríquez y Carvajal (14 January 1859 – 6 February 1935) was a medical doctor, lawyer, writer, educator and politician from the Dominican Republic, who was President of the Dominican Republic from July 1916 to November 1916. His tenure as President ended with the US occupation of the Dominican Republic. He went into exile in Cuba. After studying extensively in his homeland, beginning in 1887, Henríquez moved to Paris for four years, earning a doctorate in Medicine the University of Paris. He returned to the Dominican Republic, where he practiced medicine and taught. He served as editor of the newspaper El Maestro, but left the country during the dictatorship of Ulises Heureaux. While away, he befriended Juan Isidro Jiménez and returned to the Dominican Republic in 1899 to serve as Minister of Foreign Affairs when Heureaux was assassinated and Jiménez was made president.

He was married Salomé Ureña, a poet, from 1880 until her death in 1898. He had 4 children, Pedro, Francisco, , and Camila. His second wife was Natividad Lauransón Amiama.

Following the fall of Jiménez in 1902, Henríquez established residence in Cuba and practiced medicine. He returned briefly to his country of birth following the interim government of Horacio Vásquez in 1903, but he left several months later. In 1907, President Ramón Cáceres sent him as a delegate to the Hague Convention. In 1911 Henríquez served as an emissary to Haiti following border disputes.

In 1916, Henríquez was on a diplomatic mission when he learned that the Dominican Republic had been occupied by the United States. The Council of Secretaries of State led by Horacio Vásquez elected Henríquez President. He served from 31 July to 26 November 1916. In her 1929 article Así es, she praised Henríquez's intellectual attributes, which lent him to being an "enlightened" feminist man.

Selected publications "La hija del Hebreo" (1883, 'The daughter of the Hebrews') "Ramón Mella" (1891) "Informe sobre la seguridad Conferencia Internacional Americana" (1902,' Report on the American International Security Conference ') "Juvenilia" (1904) "Dolorosa" (1909,' Painful ') "Derecho Internacional Público y la Guerra" (1915) "Discurso pro-Pablo Duarte" (1915,' Speaking for Pablo Duarte ') "Páginas Selectas" (1918,'Selected Writings') "Cuba y Quisqueya" (1920, 'Cuba and Quisqueya ') "Rosa de la tarde" (1923, 'Rose of the Afternoon') "Guarocuya. Monólogo de Enriquillo El" (1924, 'Guarocuya. The monologue of Enriquillo') "Todo por Cuba" (1925, 'All of Cuba') "Nacionalismo" (1925, 'nationalism') "Del Amor y del Dolor" (1926, 'About love and about pain') "Páginas electas" (1926, 'Selected Writings') "Mi Álbum de Sonetos "(1927, 'My album of the sonnets') " Etica y Estética "(1929, 'ethics and aesthetic') " historicos Romances "(1937, 'Historical romances') Bani "(1939) " El poema de la historia. fragmento de un poema inconcluso "(1948, 'The poetry of history. fragment of an unfinished poem') " Cuentos "(1950, 'narratives')