Alejandro Enrique Grullón Espaillat (

Santiago de los Caballeros Santiago de los Caballeros ("James, son of Zebedee, Saint James of the Knights"), often shortened to Santiago, is the second-largest city in the Dominican Republic and the fourth-largest city in the Caribbean by population. It is the capital of ...

, 3 April 1929 –

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, La Romana, 15 December 2020) was a banker and businessman from the

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Biography

Grullón Espaillat was born to Manuel Alejandro Grullón Rodríguez-Objío (1895–1985) and Amantina Rafaela Espaillat González (1903–2006). He married Ana Dínorah Viñas Messina (1929–2001) in 1952, and later after he divorced, then he married Melba Segura Castillo (born 1956). He was grandnephew of

Arturo Grullón Julio Arturo Grullón Julia (February 8, 1869 – July 14, 1942) was a Dominican painter, ophthalmologist, and educator. A student of influential Puerto Rican intellectual Eugenio María de Hostos, Grullón is considered one of the forerunners ...

and second cousin of Juan Isidro Jimenes Grullón. He founded ''

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'' in January 1964, today the largest private bank in the Dominican Republic. He was the chairman of the Board of Directors of ''Grupo Popular'' until April 2014, when he left his post to his son Manuel Alejandro Grullón (1953–). He was also co-founder of the

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''Fundación Sur Futuro''.

Ancestry

References

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